[Sca-cooks] C.14th lasagne

[Philippa Alderton]

--- Christina Nevin <cnevin at caci.co.uk> wrote:

> 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."

Dunno- how'd they fit all those bodies into the oven?

Phli.....er, Gunthar

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Never a horse that cain't be rode,
And never a rider who cain't be throwed....

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