Patina Apiciana

This recipe has often been associated with lasagna as it uses layers of a wheat-based product that has been interpreted as pasta, with meat and fish in a sauce that is thickened with egg between the layers. These layers are called lagana, which is a medieval Italian dialect term for pasta, but in Roman times the term referred to unleavened bread. The finished dish is made in a vessel but there the resemblance to lasagna ceases, for it is not put in the oven and is subsequently turned