This is an excerpt from Due Libri di Cucina - Libro B
(Italy, 15th c. - Rebecca Friedman, trans.)
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XXXXII To make a chicken tart. If you want to make a pie of chickens, one can do it in four ways. Take them and dismember them and fry them in lard and get boiled shoulder meat beaten very well and good cheese with it and good finest spices and eggs that you need, and put the chickens and these things together, and make the pie, and anoint it of the top with yolks of egg with saffron, and one wishes not to give salt to all these things.