SC - Eggplant 'confusion'

[TG]

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It is mentioned in recipe #33. The word "Marignani" seems to be one of
the many regional variants; see Scully's glossary. And in case you have
a good library around: There is also a short passage about ital.
_melanzana_ and variants in an article by Gustav Ineichen in the
"Festschrift Walther von Wartburg zum 80. Geburtstag", Tübingen 1968,
425-428. Ineichen quotes an article, I did not see yet. But the title
looks promising: C.E. Dubler: Temas geográfico-lingüistícos I: Sobre la
berenjena. In: Al-Andalus VII (1942) 367-389. [Sobre la berenjena =
About the eggplant]

Scappi 1570 has a recipe for "minestra di melanzane in diuersi modi con
brodo di carne" (Cap. II 224, p. 83a); he says that eggplant can be
prepared in some ways like the "zucche". 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).

Thomas