Placenta cake is a dish from ancient Greece and Rome made of many dough layers interspersed with a mixture of cheese and honey, flavored with bay leaves, baked, and then covered in honey. It appears in classical Greek poetry and in Roman agricultural writing, including the works of Archestratos and Antiphanes and the agricultural writing of Cato the Elder, and is considered a forerunner of later layered pastries such as baklava.
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Later, in 160 BC, Cato the Elder provided a recipe for placenta in his De agri cultura which Andrew Dalby considers, along with Cato's other dessert recipes, to be in the "Greek tradition", and possibly copied from a Greek cookbook.
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Most claim that placenta, and therefore likely baklava derived from a recipe from Ancient Greece.
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- Uses Ingredient: Cheese, Infobox main_ingredient field: Flour and semolina dough, cheese, honey, bay leaves
- Uses Ingredient: Honey, Infobox main_ingredient field: Flour and semolina dough, cheese, honey, bay leaves
- Uses Ingredient: Bay Leaf, Infobox main_ingredient field: Flour and semolina dough, cheese, honey, bay leaves
- Uses Ingredient: Semolina, Infobox main_ingredient field: Flour and semolina dough, cheese, honey, bay leaves
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