Everyday Patina (Layered Udder, Fish and Chicken)

Ingredients

• sow's udder (sumen)
• fish flesh
• chicken flesh
• eggs
• pepper
• lovage
• liquamen (Roman fermented fish sauce)
• wine
• passum (raisin wine)
• oil
• pasta sheets (lagana)

Instructions

1. Chop cooked sow's udder, fish and chicken finely; beat eggs separately.
2. Make a sauce of pepper, lovage, liquamen, wine, passum and oil; boil, then bind with eggs and add the meats.
3. Layer in a bronze pan alternating pasta sheets and ladlefuls of the meat, sprinkling oil.
4. Pierce the top sheet, turn out onto a plate and replace the sheet; sprinkle pepper and serve.