sweets in Greece

Sweets in Greece

 

I’d like to talk about Greek sweets. Firstly, “cheesecake” is popular among people. Of course, cheese is essential for cheesecake. Then, how cheese was made?

It was said that Arabic nomadic tribe had made cheese before generation of ancient Greece. Arabic nomadic tribe act with sheep’s stomach put milk of animal. But, when they tried to drink it, a lump of white material and transparent water came out from sheep’s stomach.  This lump of white material was cheese. Then, by enzyme included stomach and swing of stomach in moving, milk was made into cheese. In this way, it spread all over the world and especially in ancient Greece. Right then, what is a model of cheese cake?

It is “toriyon” which is popular foods among ancient Greeks. “toriyon” seemed to be kind of custard pudding.  Afterward, various kinds of sweets made of cheese came to be cooked all over the world through spread of cheese. In Japan, “So” which was equal to cheese was made. But, “So” didn’t develop because it didn’t suit people’s taste in those days. However, During the Meiji era when Western things entered at a burst, people positively started to take in cheese. During the Showa era, refrigerator was exploited and sweets which can’t keep long spread. For example, cake with fresh cream. Moreover, “cottage cheese” and “cream cheese” appeared and “rare cheesecake” came to gather attention.

Then, media picked up sweets made of cheese all together. As a result, cheesecake became one of major sweets. Now, a wide variety of cheesecakes are enjoyed. For example, “baked cheesecake”, “rare cheesecake” and “souffle cheesecake”. Which type of cheesecake do you like?
 

 

Secondly, Greece is famous for “waffle”. Origin of waffle dates back Greece in the eighteen century. “uburi” which is one of the oldest sweets of all. It was printed uneven pattern on and baked. And it became “waffle”. It is sweets which enjoyed by common people as with “crepe”. So, the stand outside seemed to sell “waffle” at the festival of village.

There’re the unique ways to cook “waffle” depending on each regions. For example, “Belgium waffle”, ”American waffle” and ”Japanese waffle”

 

 

Finally, history of wedding cake is very old and “wedding cake” in ancient Greece was made of small and solid biscuit made from wheat which is major food for people living.

Greeks seemed to crush up a piece of biscuit and scattered them on bridal head in order to hope for bridal pregnancy.