PATELLAM TYROTARICHAM EX QUOCUMQUE SALSO VOLUERIS (Bowl of cheese cream and salt fish)

(Apic. 5, 2, 17) Ingredients:

• 1 fillet stockfish
• 1 calves’ brain
• 4 chicken livers
• 7 eggs
• 250 gr. ‘ricotta’ cheese
• 12 grain pepper
• 12 grain lovage
• 1 tblsp dry oregano
• 1 rue berry
• 1/2 glass dry wine (like Marsala)
• 3 tsp honey
• 3 tblsp oil
• Cumin

Instructions:
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Softening stockfish in water for 5 - 6 hours, dry, skin, bone and fry in a little bit of oil. Blanch calves’ brain for 5 minutes and cool. Blanch chicken livers for ten minutes and cool. Boil 3 eggs, cool and shell. Cut in small pieces stockfish, calves’ brain, chicken livers and hard-boiled eggs; put in a pan, add ‘ricotta’ cheese and mesh. Pulverize pepper and lovage, add dry oregano and rue and an emulsion of wine, honey and oil; pour over the mixture. Cook on small heat for approximately 2 hours. Whip all until obtain a homogeneous cream, adding 4 raws eggs; cook for half an hour. Cool and serve cold, after spreaded with cumin.

 

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(Apic. 9, 6) Ingredients:

• 3-4 oysters per person
• pinch of pepper
• pinch of ground lovage (or a large pinch of chopped celery leaves)
• 2 egg yolks
• 1 tbsp white wine vinegar
• 1 tbsp Liquamen (or soya sauce)
• 1 tbsp white wine
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 1 tbsp honey

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