What makes cheesecakes adaptable to any culinary style is their cheese. Back in Ancient Greece, every market sold cheeses to those who cannot make their own. By the time the fourth century B.C. came, the most accepted white Greek cheeses were being seasoned with spices and baked into a manner similar to pies and cakes. Even the Romans, during the height of their power, used a great deal of cheese in their cooking. They preserved cheese using a salt-based sauce and provided the recipe for the celebration of the wedding cake, which still contain cheese as the main ingredient.
The Americans and Their Cream Cheese
A soft, mild-tasting, sweet, white cheese is the cream cheese. Generally, cream cheese contains at least 33 percent milk fat and a moisture content of not more than 55 percent and a pH level ranging from 4.4 to 4.9. Cream cheese is not usually matured and is meant to be consumed fresh. This makes it diverse from other supple cheeses, like the Neufchatel and the Europes Brie. The taste, production and texture of the cream cheese are more comparable to that of the Mascarpone and Boursin.
Cream cheese was known to originate in the United States during...