I looked at the history of cheesecake website first and got the idea to add some heavy cream to a cheesecake recipe, then I looked at the chocolate ricotta cheese pie recipe and they did that very thing. Sometimes I add melted butter to my cheesecakes but I like the idea of adding heavy cream better, mainly because I am swimming in the stuff right now.
This is a quote from the history website;
"...the earliest actual recipe for a cheesecake is found in the Forme of Cury (14th Century). Hannah Wooley's Queen-Like Closet (1664) gives a cheesecake recipe which sounds quite modern."
---Oxford Companion to Food, Alan Davidson [Oxford University Press:Oxford] 1999 (p. 158)
One of my 6 greats grandmothers was named Hannah Wooley, she was born in London in 1716. It could have been an ancestor of mine who wrote that cheesecake recipe!!
Thanks for the interesting links...
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