Placenta cake

Placenta cake is a dish from ancient Greece and Rome consisting of many dough layers interspersed with a mixture of cheese and honey and flavored with bay leaves, baked and then covered in honey. The dessert is mentioned in classical texts such as the Greek poems of Archestratos and Antiphanes, as well as the De agri cultura of Cato the Elder. It is thought to be related to baklava. The Latin word placenta is derived from the Greek plakous for thin or layered flat breads. The placenta of mammalian pregnancy is so named from the perceived resemblance between its shape and that of a placenta cake.

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