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 Curd cheese mixed with sugar and whole eggs, in shortcrust base, baked. A form of Pudding Pie  Yorkshire Curd Tart Image: http://www.bbcgoodfood.com  Original Receipt in ‘The Accomplisht Cook‘ by Robert May, 1660 (Robert May 1660);To make Cheesecakes. Let your paste be very good, either puff-paste or cold butter-paste, with sugar mixed with it, then the whey being dried very well from the cheese-curds which must be made of new milk or butter, beat them in a mortar or tray, with a quarter of a pound of butter to every pottle of curds, a good quantity of rose-water, three grains of ambergriese or musk prepared, the crums of a small manchet rubbed through a cullender, the yolks of ten eggs, a grated nutmeg, a little salt, and good store of sugar, mix all these well together with a little cream, but do not make them too soft; instead of bread you may take almonds which are much better; bake them in a quick oven, and let them not stand too long in, least they should be to dry. To make Cheesecakes otherways. Make the crust of milk & butter boil’d together, put it into the flour & make it up pretty stiff, to a pottle of fine 288 flour, take half a pound of butter; then take a fresh cheese made of morning milk, and a pint of cream, put it to the new milk, and set the cheese with some runnet, when it is come, put it in a cheese-cloth and press it from the whey, stamp in the curds a grated fine small manchet, some cloves and mace, a pound and a half of well washed and pick’t currans, the yolks of eight eggs, some rose-water, salt, half a pound of refined white sugar, and a nutmeg or two; work all these materials well together with a quarter of a pound of good sweet butter, and some cream, but make it not too soft, and make your cheesecakes according to these formes. See: Almond Cheesecakes Apple and Cheese Cake Apple Cheesecake Bishop Auckland Cheese Cakes Bread Cheesecakes Carrot Cake Cheese Cake or Curd Tart Curd Tart Devon Cheesecake Lady Monmouth’s Cheese Cake Lemon Cheesecake Lent Tart or Kentish Pudding Pie London Cheesecake Mrs Leed’s Cheese Cakes Northamptonshire Cheesecake Potato Cheesecake Yorkshire Curd Tart or Cheesecake Charminster Curd Tart Cheese Cake or Curd Tart Curd Tart Sambocade Spiced Curd Tarts Yorkshire Curd Tart or Cheesecake  |
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