Cheese pie and its history

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Perhaps since man learned how to roll out dough, invented cheese and started baking bread, and cheese pie appeared. We find the first mention of it among the ancient Romans, who called it "libum" and brought it to temples as a sacrifice to the gods. With the invasion of the barbarians in the Western Roman Empire, the secret of making a pie was lost, but it was preserved in the Eastern. Around the year 1000, the recipe for this dish, beloved by the Greeks, crossed the borders of Byzantium and began a victorious march across Europe, reaching its northernmost limits - Great Britain and the countries of Scandinavia.

There, the Greek "placinta" - a cheese pie made from puff pastry - has undergone modifications. Northern peoples are more fond of sand, yeast or biscuit base for baking. In the book "On Good Cuisine and Manners" by the royal house of the Tudors, which was published in 1545, we meet a completely different culinary product with hard cheese, and not cottage cheese. Herehis recipe, which has survived to this day from the Middle Ages.

Cheesecake or cheesecake

From a glass of wheat flour, 125 g of butter and a pinch of s alt knead the dough. Add 3 tablespoons of sour cream and continue to knead until the mass stops sticking to your hands. The gingerbread man is put in the cold for three hours and taken for the filling: two glasses of grated cheese are mixed with 1 tablespoon of flour. Separate the yolks of 4 eggs and beat them with 2 cups of cream, add s alt and red pepper to taste. The oven is heated to 200 °C. Roll out the dough into a circle, slightly bending its edges into the sides. You

pour the cheese in an even layer in the middle. Pour over it with egg-cream mass and put in the oven for a quarter of an hour, after which they reduce the heat to 150 ° C and bake for another 20 minutes until browned.

There are many recipes when cheese pie is served as a gourmet dessert. For these purposes, we take 250 g of high-quality homemade cheese and add it to the biscuit dough. It should be the consistency of sour cream. Pour it into a mold and press seedless grapes (raisin variety) into it. Bake the product for half an hour at a temperature of 180 ° C.

Human fantasy knows no limits. Today, cheese cake is made sweet and sour, kneaded on shortbread, biscuit, puff pastry and even on grated cookies. They put tender sweet cottage cheese, s alted cheese, feta, "Adyghe", goat, sheep, vurdu (from colostrum, "first milk"), parmesan, hard yellow varieties. The traditional Greek (now also Bulgarian) placinta, when cheese is put in, has also remained in fashion.not from above, but between puff layers or inside the “envelope”.

Let's get acquainted with the most original recipe - cheese cake with white chocolate and cherries. 200 g of cookies are ground to crumbs in a coffee grinder. Then 50 g of almonds are crushed in the same way. 100 g of butter is melted to a liquid state and poured over cookies with almonds, the dough is rolled out and placed in a round shape, covering its bottom with parchment paper. A bar of white chocolate is melted on a steam bath. A pound of unleavened cottage cheese, a glass of sugar and sour cream, a bag of vanilla sugar and four beaten eggs are added to it. Pour this filling onto the dough and bake for an hour at 200 ° C. Then, when the cake has cooled completely, prepare cherry jelly (you can buy powdered and follow the instructions on the package). You need to pour the jelly on the product, decorate with cocktail cherries and put the cake in the refrigerator overnight.