The History Of The Cheesecake
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Who doesn’t love Cheesecake? It is a great choice of dessert for many occasions.
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We are blessed to have the variety of cheesecakes that we have today. We can chose anything from new york cheesecake, to a chocolate cheesecake, to many different types of fruit cheesecake.
More creative cheesecakes include turtle, cinnamon, and white chocolate raspberry cheesecake. But the list goes on.
What many people don’t know is that this dessert was just as popular at the time it was originally created, even been offered to appease the gods.
The history of the cheesecake can be traced back 2000 years. Originally the cheesecake was made by the ancient Greeks.
We do not know what these cheesecakes had been called at that time, but we do know they were served to Olympians in the original Olympic games held in 776 BC on the Isle of Delos.
Often served in smaller sizes than today’s, the Greeks viewed this dessert as a good source of energy for the athletes.
When the Romans conquered ancient Greece, aspects of the culture, such as food, were also conquered. The Roman took the dessert, changed the name to placenta (also called Libum), and elevated the dessert to the level of “food for the gods.”
The earliest “recipe” we have of the placenta was written by Marcus Porcius Cato, the Roman politician.
The simple recipe was:
Crush 2 pounds of cheese in a mortar. Then mix with 1 pound of bread wheat flour.
After adding one egg, the final step is to cook in a hot fire.
Roman culture promoted the offering of food to god to ask for their blessings.
These gods include the likes of Jupiter, Janus, Vesta, Lares, Pales, Saturn, Ceres.
The Roman believed their success in life relied upon these gods. This led them to lay down many sacrifices.
The Romans used our modern day cheesecake to sacrifice and appease their gods. This was a very important dessert for them.
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