Sweet potato pie

 

For today’s Did You Know we will look at Cheesecake fun facts.

Cheesecake Fun Facts: The first “cheese cake” may have been created on the Greek island of Samos. Physical anthropologists excavated cheese molds there which were dated circa 2,000 B.C.

• A cheesecake (at least an American-style cheesecake) is not a cake; it’s a baked cheese custard pie with a crust. The uncooked custard filling is poured into a crust and then baked.

• It is believed that cheesecakes were served to athletes competing during the first Olympic games in 776 B.C. to give them energy.
• Modern commercial American cream cheese was developed in 1872, when William Lawrence, from Chester, New York, while looking for a way to recreate the soft, French cheese Neufchâtel, accidentally came up with a way of making an “unripened cheese” that is heavier and creamier; other dairymen came up with similar creations independently.
• The largest cheesecake ever made weighed 4,703 pounds.  Philadelphia Kraft Foods Mexico made the cake on January 25, 2009 in Mexico.

• Even though he is best known for his signature sandwiches, Arnold Reuben (1883-1970) is generally credited for creating the New York Style cheesecake. Reuben was born in Germany and he came to America when he was young. The story goes that Reuben was invited to a dinner party where the hostess served a cheese pie. Allegedly, he was so intrigued by this dish that he experimented with the recipe until he came up with the beloved NY Style cheesecake.
• On the “The Golden Girls,” the cast consumed more than 100 cheesecakes over the course of the TV show’s seven-year run.

Ingredients :

• 3-4 baked sweet potatoes
• 1 tsp.nutmeg
• 1/2 tsp.cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp.allspice
• 1 tsp.vanilla extract
• 1 tsp. lemon extract ( optional )
• 1 cup evaporated milk more if needed
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 4 lg.eggs
• 1 stick butter ( soften )

How to Make Sweet Potato Pie :

bake potatoes in advance or you can boil them if you’d like. I bake mine..Preheat oven to 350Place pie shells in oven bake until a very light brownMix All Ingredients***Use a whisk while mixing it helps to get the strands outPour into pans and bake for 50 mins. depending on your oven temp. Pies should be full and firm