SC - Eggplant 'confusion'

[Philip & Susan Troy]

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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Phil & Susan Troy

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