Pasta (1847)

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THE EUROPEAN DIARIES OF RICHARD COBDEN (1846-1849)
edited by Miles Taylor
Scolar Press, Hants, England
1994

   If you don't like that "pasta" from the 1600s, here's one from 1847.  It also beats OED's 1874.

Pg. 87:
_Genoa Monday 11 January (1847--ed.)_...
   The making of macaroni, vermicelli, & other pastas for soup a considerable industry here large quantities exported--no other place has succeeded in making them so well.

Pg. 99 (11 February 1847):
   ... the English shovel upon each other the chalk _confetti_ with all the zeal & energy of navigators.

Pg. 126:
_Bologna Wednesday 5 May (1847--ed.)_...
The town has been renowned for its sausages since the time of the Romans, & am told that although the workpeople used to their manufacture have tried to carry the art to other places they have not succeeded in making them elsewhere those of Bologna.
(OED has 1596, then 1842 for "Bologna"--ed.)

Pg. 138:
   ...saw Madame Pasta's* houses...
*Giuditta Marie Constanza Pasta (1797-1865).  Soprano.

Pg. 203:
_Lubeck Thusrday 30 September (1847--ed.)_...
   After dinner went to "the cellar" under the Town Hall a famous resort for people where (Pg. 204--ed.) they drink beer & sing & listen to music...
   ...--it resembled a midnight scene in a "coal-hole" or "finish"* in London--...
*A place of late-night entertainment.