What exactly it was is unclear:[2] "Latin tracta... appears to be a kind of pastry. It is hard to be sure, because its making is never described fully";[3] and it may have meant different things at different periods.[3]Laganon/laganum was at different periods an unleavened bread, a pancake, or later, perhaps a sort of pasta.[4]
Tracta is mentioned in the Apicius as a thickener for liquids. Vehling's translation of Apicius glosses it as "a piece of pastry, a round bread or roll in this case, stale, best suited for this purpose."[5] Perry compares it to a "ship's biscuit".[6]
^Clifford A. Wright, "The History of Macaroni" [1]
January 07, 2023
tracta, dough, modern, greek, flatbread, lagana, bread, tracta, tractum, ancient, greek, τρακτὸς, τρακτόν, also, called, laganon, laganum, lagana, greek, λάγανον, kind, drawn, rolled, pastry, dough, roman, greek, cuisines, what, exactly, unclear, latin, tracta. For the modern Greek flatbread see lagana bread Tracta tractum Ancient Greek traktὸs trakton also called laganon laganum or lagana Greek laganon was a kind of drawn out or rolled out pastry dough in Roman 1 and Greek cuisines What exactly it was is unclear 2 Latin tracta appears to be a kind of pastry It is hard to be sure because its making is never described fully 3 and it may have meant different things at different periods 3 Laganon laganum was at different periods an unleavened bread a pancake or later perhaps a sort of pasta 4 Tracta is mentioned in the Apicius as a thickener for liquids Vehling s translation of Apicius glosses it as a piece of pastry a round bread or roll in this case stale best suited for this purpose 5 Perry compares it to a ship s biscuit 6 It is also mentioned in Cato the Elder s recipe for placenta cake layered with cheese 7 Athenaeus s Deipnosophistae mentions a kind of cake called kapyridia known as trakta which uses a bread dough but is baked differently 8 Some writers connect it to modern Italian lasagne 9 of which it is the etymon 10 but most authors deny that it was pasta 6 11 There is a modern Greek leavened flatbread called lagana but it is not clear when the name was first applied to a leavened bread Notes Edit traktὸs trakton dough drawn out or rolled for pastry Henry George Liddell Robert Scott A Greek English Lexicon on Perseus Charles Perry What was tracta Petits Propos Culinaires 12 37 9 1982 and a note in 14 a b Andrew Dalby Food in the Ancient World from A to Z ISBN 1135954224 s v Pastry p 251 Andrew Dalby Food in the Ancient World from A to Z ISBN 1135954224 s v Pasta p 251 Joseph Dommers Vehling editor and translator Cookery and dining in imperial Rome 1936 reprinted 1977 p 127 a b Charles Perry Old Non Pasta Los Angeles Times March 05 1997 Cato the Elder De Agricultura section 76 Athenaeus Deipnosophistae 3 79 Serventi Silvano Sabban Francoise Aug 13 2013 Pasta The Story of a Universal Food Columbia University Press pp 15 18 ISBN 9780231519441 Vocabolario Etimologico Pianigiani 1907 s v lasagna Clifford A Wright The History of Macaroni 1 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Tracta dough amp oldid 1128404954, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
