Editing Lasagna (section)

==Origins and history==
Lasagna originated in Italy during the [[Middle Ages]]. The oldest transcribed text about lasagna appears in 1282 in the ''Memoriali Bolognesi'' ('Bolognese Memorials'), in which lasagna was mentioned in a poem transcribed by a Bolognese [[notary]];<ref>[https://disci.unibo.it/it/ricerca/progetti-di-ricerca/progetti-di-fondazioni-private-o-ambasciate/un-mare-magnum-di-possibilita-i-memoriali-bolognesi-e-la-loro-schedatura-1265-1452 Un mare magnum di possibilità: i Memoriali bolognesi e la loro schedatura (1265-1452)]</ref><ref>[http://www.intratext.com/IXT/ITA1671/_P3.HTM#60 Rime dei memoriali bolognesi]</ref> while the first recorded recipe was set down in the early 14th century in the ''[[Liber de Coquina]]'' (''The Book of Cookery'').<ref>[http://www.staff.uni-giessen.de/gloning/tx/mul2-lib.htm ''Liber de Coquina (1285)'', ''De lasanis''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150212011859/http://www.staff.uni-giessen.de/gloning/tx/mul2-lib.htm |date=12 February 2015 }}. Gloning.</ref> It bore only a slight resemblance to the later traditional form of lasagna, featuring a [[Fermentation|fermented]] [[dough]] flattened into thin sheets, boiled, sprinkled with cheese and spices, and then eaten with a small pointed stick.<ref name=serventi235>Serventi, ''Pasta: the story of a universal food'', Columbia UP, 2012, p. 235.</ref> Recipes written in the century following the ''Liber de Coquina'' recommended boiling the pasta in chicken broth and dressing it with cheese and [[chicken fat]]. In a recipe adapted for the [[Lent]]en [[Fasting and abstinence in the Catholic Church|fast]], [[walnut]]s were recommended.<ref name=serventi235/>