With the overpowering yeast flavor gone, the result tasted more like a dessert treat. Europeans began removing yeast and adding beaten eggs to the cheesecake instead. The English name cheesecake has been used only since the 15th century, and the cheesecake did not evolve into its modern form until somewhere around the 18th century. On this basis, chef Heston Blumenthal has argued that cheesecake is an English invention. Ī more modern version called a sambocade, made with elderflower and rose water, is found in Forme of Cury, an English cookbook from 1390. Of the three, placenta cake is the most like modern cheesecakes: having a crust that is separately prepared and baked. The earliest extant cheesecake recipes are found in Cato the Elder's De Agri Cultura, which includes recipes for three cakes for religious uses: libum, savillum and placenta. The earliest attested mention of a cheesecake is by the Greek physician Aegimus (5th century BCE), who wrote a book on the art of making cheesecakes ( πλακουντοποιικόν σύγγραμμα- plakountopoiikon sungramma). HistoryĪn ancient form of cheesecake may have been a popular dish in ancient Greece even prior to Romans' adoption of it with the conquest of Greece.
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Other sources identify it as a flan, or tart.
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Others find compelling evidence that it is a custard pie, based on the overall structure, with the separate crust, the soft filling, and the absence of flour. Some people classify it as a torte due to the usage of many eggs, which are the sole source of leavening, as a key factor. Modern cheesecake is not usually classified as an actual " cake", despite the name (compare with Boston cream "pie").