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For the temporary organ unique to mammals, see Placenta.

Placenta is a dish from ancient Rome consisting of sheets of flour dough (similar to modern phyllo) topped with cheese and honey and flavored with bay leaves.^[1]^[2] Cato included a recipe in his De Agri Cultura.^[3]

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^ "American Pie". American Heritage. April/May 2006. http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/2006/2/2006_2_30.shtml. Retrieved 2009-07-04. "The Romans refined the recipe, developing a delicacy known as placenta, a sheet of fine flour topped with cheese and honey and flavored with bay leaves."
^ Around the Roman Table. University of Chicago Press. 2005. ISBN 0226233472. http://books.google.com/books?id=YXGlAr17oekC&pg=PA186&dq=Placenta+as+food+Italy+bay+leaves&ei=osZPStvpK4PcygS6nvXRAg.
^ "Roman Recipes". Temple of Religio Romana. http://www.religioromana.net/romanrecipes.htm. Retrieved 2009-07-04. (includes recipe)

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[amherit-0] "American Pie". American Heritage. April/May 2006. http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/2006/2/2006_2_30.shtml. Retrieved 2009-07-04. "The Romans refined the recipe, developing a delicacy known as placenta, a sheet of fine flour topped with cheese and honey and flavored with bay leaves."

[1] Around the Roman Table. University of Chicago Press. 2005. ISBN 0226233472. http://books.google.com/books?id=YXGlAr17oekC&pg=PA186&dq=Placenta+as+food+Italy+bay+leaves&ei=osZPStvpK4PcygS6nvXRAg.

[2] "Roman Recipes". Temple of Religio Romana. http://www.religioromana.net/romanrecipes.htm. Retrieved 2009-07-04. (includes recipe)

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