What is the origin of cheesecake?
Cheesecake Origin Dates Back Several Centuries My own Swiss ancestors take credit for bringing a lot of interesting things into this world, including cheese. Archeologists have discovered potsherds, a pottery type of strainer, in the remnants of dwellings around Lake Neuchatel that contain mold spores unique to cheese, dating back perhaps as far as 8,000 B.C. These ancient people probably used goat milk to make their cheese, but just about every animal that can give milk has been used since to make curds and whey. Flours made from crushed grains were being made into unleavened cakes perhaps as early as 25 centuries before the birth of Christ. The ancient Egyptians had developed ovens, of sorts, for processing these bakery products, but it was really the ancient Greeks who are given most credit for making what we think of today as cakes. For the most part, though, these “cakes” were more often served either as snacks between meals or as a part of the meal, rather than in the traditional
