Roman origin etc Article currently claims that the Roman placenta was a possible origin of baklava But Cato s recipe as quoted is very different from baklava There are no nuts and no layers separated with butter hence no flaky layers In fact it is more like a lasagna dish with a cheese filling over which honey was poured What is plausible is that soaking pastries in honey was part of the baklava recipe inherited from Roman and Greek tradition It may be that the layering came from the Turkic tradition of folded bread while the syrup came from the Greco Roman tradition But I will not put that in the article since it is WP OR and or WP SYNTH