Ingredients

  • 3 large eggs
  • 1/2 cup flour, all-purpose
  • 13 cup milk
  • 13 cup water
  • 2 1/2 cups pork or chicken, cooked, thinly sliced, or 1 1/2 lb cooked fish fillets
  • 3 large eggs raw
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 1/2 teaspoon black pepper ground
  • 1/2 teaspoon celery seeds or lovage
  • 2 cups beef stock or chicken stock, prefer veal stock if possible
  • 1/4 cup white wine
  • 1/4 cup sweet raisin wine muscatel
  • 1 x flour, all-purpose
  • 1 x black pepper coarsely ground
  • 1 x pine nuts or almonds

Method

  • First make the pancakes:- beat 3 eggs and add flour, milk and water to make a thin batter.
  • Into a greased 8 inch frying pan, pour a little of the batter and allow it to spread evenly.
  • Cook each pancake over high heat and flip over when it is lightly browned.
  • Prepare the coked meat or fish: Mix with eggs, olive oil, celery seed, stock, white wine and sweet wine.
  • Heat the meats in this sauce, adding more liquid if required.
  • Thicken the sauce with flour.
  • Next, take a greased casserole dish and cover the bottom with a layer of meats or fish in their sauce.
  • Sprinkle with coarsely ground pepper and with nuts.
  • On this, place a pancake.
  • Fill the dish with layers of the sauced meats, seasoned with pepper and nuts, each alternating with a pancake.
  • Pierce a hole in the final pancake to allow steam to escape and cooke uncovered in a 375F (190C) oven for 20- 25 minutes until the dish is uniformly heated.
  • Serve with a sprinkling of pepper.