How Do You Make Cheesecake Brownie Bars?
With its firm grip on the whole of Western civilisation, cheesecake thrived in a myriad of forms. Since cream cheese is a relatively new invention, popular ingredients of the time were cottage cheese, ricotta cheese, and the French cheese Neufchatel. This is the cheese that American dairymen were attempting to recreate in 1872 when they stumbled upon something even creamier, cream cheese. When James L. Kraft invented pasteurization in 1912 and began marketing Philadelphia cream cheese to the masses, cheesecake became a whole new velvety animal. I’m sure the fact that the Greeks invented cheesecake a few millennia ago is disturbing to New York Cheesecake devotees who would like to believe that it was yet another hometown invention of pioneering New Yorkers, but even though cheesecake has thrived without the assistance of New Yorkers for centuries, they did help to perfect the cheesecake. The ideal New York Cheesecake exists on its own merits, without adornment or flourish, comprised of