SC - 100's and 1000's (was Re: upholstery)
Lee-Gwen Booth
piglet006 at globalfreeway.com.au
Mon Aug 14 17:10:54 PDT 2000
TG wrote:
>
> Then, on fol. 151b and 363a
> there are several recipes with "molignane". If I am not mistaken, this
> is yet another word form for eggplants. (The parallel recipe to the
> Neapolitan recipe collection #33 in the Riva del Garda Manuscript of
> Maestro Martino begins: "103. Per fare cocere li mollegnani ...";
> Benporat p. 190).
I believe this spelling/pronunciation is still used today among some
Americans of Southern Italian descent, particularly Americans of
Neapolitan and Sicilian ancestry. I don't know if this is the case for
current residents of these places, but I wouldn't be surprised.
Adamantius
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