Just watched ‘Tasting History’ on you tube.
A guy that finds old recipes even dating back to Greek and Roman times. Does a lot of medevle recipes and a lot from an Form of Curry’ a fourteenth century English cook book.
One of the recipes he covered was lasanga. Pre American discovery, so no tomatoes. It was just noodle and cheese.
What’s my point?
As far as this forum is concerned, it just got me thinking how much pasta may have been seen in America.
We leave it out of much of our historic interpretation. And admittedly the past in this recipe was more noodle like then pasta like
A guy that finds old recipes even dating back to Greek and Roman times. Does a lot of medevle recipes and a lot from an Form of Curry’ a fourteenth century English cook book.
One of the recipes he covered was lasanga. Pre American discovery, so no tomatoes. It was just noodle and cheese.
What’s my point?
As far as this forum is concerned, it just got me thinking how much pasta may have been seen in America.
We leave it out of much of our historic interpretation. And admittedly the past in this recipe was more noodle like then pasta like