[Sca-cooks] C.14th lasagne

[Christina Nevin]

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A friend of mine sent me the below reference for lasagne, and I was
wondering if anyone has a recipe correlating to that period?

"Translated diary of Marchionne Di Coppo Stefani
March 1348 Florence

"all the citizens did little else except carry dead bodies to be buried....
At every church they dug deep pits down to the wather level; and thus those
who were poor who died during the night were bundled up quickly and thrown
into the pit. In the morning when a large number of bodies were found in the
pit, they took some earth and shovelled it down on top of them; and later
others were placed  on top of them and another layer of earth, just as one
makes lasagne with layers of pasta and cheese."

Platt, C. King Death: The Black Death and its aftermath in late-medieval
England , UCL Press 1996 (translation on page 4 with follow up original
manuscript reference) "

Ciao,
Lucrezia

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