This would be good as a ravioli filling

This week's Resolution Recipe: Meat croquettes, or rather dumplings and ravioli.

Take skinned pork belly, boiled, and mince it thoroughly with a knife: take a good quantity of savory herbs, and pound them thoroughly in a mortar: put some fresh cheese on top of this and a bit of flour, and dilute it with egg whites, until it is stiff. And take a good quantity fresh pork fat, put it in a pan, until it boils, and make croquettes out of this; and once it has been cooked and taken out, put sugar on it.
Anonimo Toscano, late 14^th - early 15^th c.

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