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★ About this recipe: Cheesecakes have probably been around for longer than you think. With their origins in Ancient Greece, they've been around for millennia. The origins of the modern-day cheesecake lie in the 19th Century, and this 1868 recipe shows us how it all began.

Between the 19th Century and around 1920 (when cheesecakes apparently dropped off of the face of the earth for 50 years), if you had wondered into your local bakery and asked for a cheesecake, this is what you would have been given. A little puff pastry tartlet with a homemade curd filling, sweetened with currants and a dash of ratafia liqueur. More like a Yorkshire curd tart rather than the biscuit-based, cream cheese filled, Golden Girls-style desserts we’re used to today, the original cheesecake had a very different look and flavour.

These little darlings will take you right back to 1868, the year in which the world’s first traffic lights were invented, Nicholas Aleksandrovitch Romanov (later, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia) was born, the Capital Punishment Amendment Act abolished public hanging in Britain and the Granny Smith apple was cultivated.
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★ Ingredients:

2 pints of water
2 pints of fresh milk
4-6 eggs
1 lemon
3 tbsp. double cream
¼ of a nutmeg
1 tbsp. ratafia (amaretto liqueur)
113g currants
Puff pastry - enough to line about 20 tartlet tins

★ Full instructions: https://www.handeddown.co.uk/post/che...
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★ Book Details: Warne’s Model Cookery and Housekeeping Book (1868)
Compiled and Edited By: Mary Jewry
Publisher: Fredrick Warne & Co. (Bedford Street, Covent Garden, Lon-don, England, U.K.), printers: Savill, Edwards and Co. Printers (Chandos Street, Covent Garden, London, England, U.K.)
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