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Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placenta_cake
TIL that Placenta is a flat cake from ancient Greece and Rome consisting of many dough layers interspersed with a mixture of cheese and honey. It is flavoured with bay leaves, baked and then covered in honey. The temporary fœtal organ was named after this cake thanks to its flat round shape.
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You add some Cinnamon and powdered sugar and I’d eat that baby!
Damn I thought it was a city in Sothern California.
Missing walnuts, and it’s basically baclava? Balaclava? You know what I mean.
Omg reminds me of a woman who told me proudly that she had made a smoothie out of her placenta and drunk it about giving birth 🤢
Terrible PR for flatcakes!
Aren’t bay leaves poisonous to eat? Seems risky to bake them into a cake.
Edit: only some are poisonous. TIL. https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/herbs/bay/which-bay-trees-are-edible.htm