Ancient Greek Cheesecake Was Served to Athletes at the First Olympic Games

The cheesecake recipe itself was pretty simple – pound the cheese until it is smooth, mix it in a brass pan with honey and spring wheat flour, heat the cheesecake “in one mass”, allow to cool, then serve.

In addition to providing fuel for the first-ever Olympians, cheesecake was also served in ancient Greece as a wedding cake.

Eventually, the recipe for cheesecake spread to Northern and Eastern Europe. Locals began to experiment, using regional ingredients to create their unique spin on cheesecake.

Then they wondered why there were a few fat athletes in the 2nd Olympics.

But that's okay because I love cheesecake almost as much as I love Olympians. I just made a pair of layered sweet potato and cranberry cheesecakes. Oh my God so good. Too good that I'll have to give them away (except for a piece or two) before I eat them all. Haha!

Thanks for the interesting bit of trivia, OP!

Romans made the first cheesecake similar to what we eat today.

R3, Πληκτρολογείτε λίπος.

R5. Αστεία σκύλα

Cheesecake is delicious. It’s not too hard to make it keto-friendly, thank the gods.

I have the most simple recipe, which is 8oz cream cheese, 1 egg, 1/3 cup sugar. Triple is a regular cheesecake, but you can make them mini. Simplest is best. I don’t like all the Oreos and salted caramel shit.

Of course, the Greeks invented cheesecake. Before they knew how to make cheese with cow's milk, a local gimp would collect smegma from all the village men. He would then blend honey into the creamy hodgepodge, before serving it on a graham cracker crust.

R7, do you drain your cheesecake?

Fancy like Applebee's!

Love it and the trivia information! And yes, I can see the energy component.

At the first Olympic Games, Aeneas the hammer thrower knew that his rival Agammemnon was lactose intolerant and so brought the cheesecake for all to eat. Aeneas then won the competition while Agamemnon was stuck in the latrines.

I'm imagining Greek Golden Girls.

[quote] I'm imagining Greek Golden Girls.

Add shoulder pads, r14, and....yep that's it.

Here are the original Golden Girls having one of their cheesecake chats...

R16, is that a lanai?

^ I think it's a dining room

This was an episode on "Ancient Recipes with Sohla" or whatever they call it. I like that show.

She baked both the Greek and the Roman versions in the traditional manner. She liked the sweeter one better. I think it was Roman but I don't remember.

I always thought Jews invented cheesecake.

Jews invented complaining about the cheesecake.

"I always thought Jews invented cheesecake. "

Was Sara Lee Jewish?

And here’s us probably going to get stewed goat bollocks or something in Qatar. That is, if we don’t get thrown out the tournament, over a harmless bit lads’-only fun. Fucksake, couldn’t we have just had the World Cup at home?