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In this parody by Calverly, "The Farmer's Daughter," the ingredients
suggest cheese cake, dating back to 1381 In England. From that year
Kettner in his _Book of the Table_ quotes this recipe:
Take cream of almonds or of cow milk and beat them well together;
and make small coffins (that is, cases of pastry), and do it (put
it) therein; and do (put) thereto sugar and good powders. Or take
good fat cheese and eggs and make them of divers colours, green,
red or yellow, and bake them or serve them forth.
This primitive "receipt" grew up into Richmond maids of honor that
caused Kettner to wax poetic with:
At Richmond we are permitted to touch with our lips a countless
number of these maids--light and airy as the "airy, fairy
Lilian." What more can the finest poetry achieve in quickening
the things of earth into tokens and foretastes of heaven, with
glimpses of higher life and ethereal worlds.
CHEESECAKES
_Coronation Cheese Cake_
The _Oxford Dictionary_ defines cheese cake as a "tartlet filled with
sweet curds, etc.
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