Opinicus wrote:
>
> "The Bibliographer" > wrote
>
> > The oldest written receipe for cheesecake comes from the
> work of Martino
> > de' Rossi (d. c. 1468). It first appeared in publshed form
> in Platina's
> > <De honeste voluptate> (Rome, 1470; Venice, 1470). Its
> next appearance was
> > in Giovanni Rosselli's <Epulario> (Venice, 1517, English
> trans. from the
> > 1579 ed., 1598).
>
> Was this recipe "primitive" or did it suggest that there had
> been a long history of development, I wonder?
>
> --
> Bob

Back then, most recipes seem to have been recorded after being in use
for rather a long while. Had read somewhere that they tended to be
aides-memoires rather than presenting new recipes.