| In this article we're going to cover the more | | | | love with the dessert. He used the recipe for the |
| modern era of cheesecake making, starting off | | | | pie and some ingredients that he provided and |
| with the most popular New York Cheesecake, | | | | began to work on his own recipe for the perfect |
| which many people say is to die for. You can | | | | cream cheese cake. In time, he began to serve |
| come to your own conclusions on that | | | | this cake at his restaurant at 49th and Broadway. |
| comment.New York cheesecake is cheesecake | | | | In no time this cheesecake became popular with |
| that is as pure as it gets with no fancy | | | | everyone who went to his restaurant and |
| ingredients added either to the cheesecake or | | | | eventually word of this wonderful dessert spread |
| placed on top of it. It is made with pure cream | | | | all over New York. Well, at least that's what the |
| cheese, cream, eggs, and sugar. Everybody has | | | | legend says.But how is it that we were even able |
| their own ideas and visions of New York Style | | | | to make a cake out of cream cheese? Well, to |
| Cheesecake. If you ask New Yorkers, only the | | | | answer that question you have to go back to the |
| great cheesecake makers are located in New | | | | year 1872. American dairymen made an amazing |
| York, and the only people who really know what | | | | breakthrough that brought about the Modern Age |
| a good cheesecake is are also in New York. In the | | | | of cheesecakes. In attempting to duplicate the |
| 1900s, cheesecakes were all the rage in New | | | | popular Neufchatel cheese of France, they came |
| York. Every restaurant had their own special | | | | up with a formula for an un-ripened cheese that |
| recipe. The actual name "New York Cheesecake" | | | | was even richer and creamier. They decided on |
| came from the fact that New Yorkers referred | | | | the name, cream cheese. The method for |
| to the cheesecakes made in New York as "New | | | | producing cream cheese was actually discovered |
| York Cheesecake." If you're a New Yorker, your | | | | by William Lawrence of Chester, New York.It |
| motto is that "If it's not a cheesecake made in | | | | wasn't until 1880 however, that the biggest |
| New York, then it's not a cheesecake." There are | | | | manufacturer of cream cheese ever, Kraft, got |
| probably many who will disagree with that.In 1929, | | | | into the business of producing what was called |
| a gentleman by the name of Arnold Reuben, | | | | Philadelphia Brand Cream Cheese for a distributor |
| owner of the legendary Turf Restaurant at 49th | | | | in New York by the name of Reynolds. In 1912, |
| and Broadway in New York City, claimed that his | | | | James Kraft came up with a method to |
| family developed the first cream-cheese cake | | | | pasteurize cream cheese and soon after that |
| recipe. While there is no actual proof that this is | | | | other manufacturers began to make dairy |
| true, nobody has stepped forward as of yet to | | | | products with this new kind of cream cheese, |
| refute that claim. All the other bakeries used | | | | including cheese cake.Andrew Krause is a Chef |
| cottage cheese. The legend of cream cheese | | | | and Pastry Chef for over 30 years, at persent I |
| cake goes something like this.Reuben was served | | | | own a Gourmet Bakery called The Cheese |
| a cheese pie in a private home and he just fell in | | | | Confectioner. |