Article: English stake claim to early lasagna recipe

SUE LEEMAN, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
07-16-2003

English stake claim to early lasagna recipe -- Cookbook dates to 1390, centuries before tomatoes
By SUE LEEMAN, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Date: 07-16-2003, Wednesday
Section: NEWS
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LONDON - After a hard day's jousting, what a medieval English knight needed was ... a plate of lasagna.

And he apparently could have it, according to British researchers who claim to have found a British recipe for lasagna dating from the 14th century - long before Italian chefs came up with the delicious concoction of layers of pasta topped with cheese.

"This is the first recorded recipe for a ...

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