Ingredients
1 1/2 cup crushed ginger cookies
1/2 cup toasted pecans, chopped fine
1/4 cup butter, melted
3 8-oz packages cream cheese
1 softened
1 cup sugar
1/2 tsp lemon juice
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
3 eggs
2 apples, sliced and sprinkled
1 with sugar and cinnamon
1/2 cup apple jelly, melted
Directions
Heat oven to 350F. Combine cookie crumbs, pecans and butter, press
onto bottom and 2" up the sides of a 9" springform pan. Bake 10
minutes.
With an electric mixer, beat cream cheese, sugar, lemon juice and
vanilla until smooth. Beat in eggs one at a time, just until
blended. Pour over crust. Top with apple slices in a pinwheel
pattern. Bake 50 minutes or until set. Cool. Refrigerate overnight.
Just before serving, spoon jelly over surface. Garnish as desired.
Canadian Living October 1993
Servings: 12 servings
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Categories: Cheesecake; Dessert
The History of Recipes
We can read the history of meal recipes back into history, at least as far back into history as early Egypt, and potentially, even further back. Interesting though that is, mostly, these old cook books were just very basic hieroglyphic recipes for meal preparation.
In fact, the oldest recipe in existence, according to experts is a series of stone tablets in Sumerian which recount the making of bread which is then used to make a drink, quite possibly a form of beer as it is recorded as having made drinkers feel wonderful and blissful. Later on, in Roman times around 25BC a man called Apicius compiled a few documents describing recipes prepared by the Romans. In his scrolls, Apicius recounts how the meals of wealthy Romans were split into hors d`oeuvres, entrees and desserts, a very modern way of dining. Additionally, he describes how the Romans were skilled in the use of many aromatic flavors, including a few you will know such as basil, mint and parsley. Later on, there are a couple of interesting books which appeared in the fourteenth century ; a recipe book called `Forme of Cury`, and another titled `Curye on Inglish`. The titles are somewhat misleading tho`, these books are nothing to do with the spicy food that we all know today, but rather descriptions of the types of food served to the nobility of that time. Later on in the 1400s, the Crusaders brought back many foods and herbs from Arab countries, including spices like basil and coriander. These new foods and tastes created a surge in books on cooking, the majority of which still exist in academic collections. By the advent of the twentieth century, cooking books were in great demand, mostly as a result of more people being able to read, people having increased leisure time and disposable income. |
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