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