"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?

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Bob
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