[Sca-cooks] Medieval Italian recipes for Lasagna was Re: Medieval English Lasagna

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

> OK had to weigh in on this one.  The earliest Italian
> MS on cooking seem to come from the 14th/15th century
> with very little accurate dating other than that.
> Here are the earliest examples I could find in my
> collections (newly expanded by some ILL).

[snip]

> In conclusion, yup the italians had lasagna.  Lots of
> variants too.

Hmmm... so we don't have any dating of lasagna in an italian manuscript
before 1390? Or do we?

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