SC - Period Recipes

[Michael F. Gunter]

> From ddfr at best.com Thu Jun  5 02:59:18 1997
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> At 5:18 PM -0500 6/4/97, maddie teller-kook wrote:
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> >Well...spaghetti is OK provided it isn't served with marinara sauce and
> >meatballs--grin. (After all, it is rumored Marco Polo brought some back
> >from China--grin)
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> >
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> Of course, spaghetti is a particular kind of pasta. The description in
> al-Baghdadi's rishta recipe isn't clear enough to say that it is
> spaghetti--I normally do it as a flat noodle. I think one of the Islamic
> pastas gets described as threads. Does anybody have an earliest reference
> that is clearly spaghetti?
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> David/Cariadoc
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Well, the earliest mention that I KNOW of is for Lucretzia Borgia's wedding cake.
They topped the cake with thin noodles that could have been spaghetti or angel
hair as representation of Lucretzia's golden blonde hair.

I've always wanted to reproduce that cake...

Yers,

Gunthar