[Ansteorra] history of cream cheese

[lanphier taylor]

Dear Meggie

I found this in a new book .
Tales of the Table, A history of Western Cuisine, by Barbara Norman,
Prentice-Halll, Inc. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1972

"Cheesecake was a Greek and Roman favorite. Athenaeus, writing in the
early third century , devoted an entire section of his work on gastronomy
to cheesecake. " p 209


Cato in his De Agriculura , Book LXXV

Has this recipe. He also has another one with more spices mostly honey.

Bray 2lbs. of cheese thoroughly in a mortar: when ist id thoroughly
macerated, add 1 pound of wheat flour, or, if you wish the cake to be
more dainty, 1/2 lb. of fine flour, and mix thoroughly with the cheese.
Add 1 egg, and work the whole well. Pat out a loaf, place on leaves, and
bake slowly on a warm hearth under a crock.


I hope this helps.

Willow de Wisp

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