CHEESECAKES. these kinds are mentioned by Demosthenes the orator, in his Speech in Defence of Ctesiphon concerning the Crown.
There are also epichyta. Nicochares, in his Handicraftsmen, says—
I've loaves, and barley-cakes, and bran, and flour,
And rolls, obelias, and honey'd cheesecakes,
Epichyti, ptisan, and common cheesecakes,
Dendalides, and fried bread.
But Pamphilus says that the [Greek: epichytos] is the same kind of cheesecake as that which is called [Greek: attanitês]. And Hipponax mentions the [Greek: attanitês] in the following lines:—
Not eating hares or woodcocks,
Nor mingling small fried loaves with cakes of sesame,
Nor dipping attanitæ in honeycombs.
There is also the creïum. This is a kind of cheesecake which, at Argos, is brought to the bridegroom from the bride; and it is roasted on the coals, and the friends of the bridegroom are invited to eat it; and it is served up with honey, as Philetas tells us in his Miscellanies.
There is also the glycinas: this is a cheesecake in fashion among the Cretans, made, with sweet wine and oil, as Seleucus tells us in his Dialects.
There is also the empeptas. The same author speaks of this as a cheesecake made of wheat, hollow and well-shaped, like those which are called [Greek: krêpides]; being rather a kind of paste into which they put those cheesecakes which are really made with cheese.
54. There are cakes, also, called [Greek: enkrides]. These are cakes boiled in oil, and after that seasoned with honey; and they are mentioned by Stesichorus in the following lines:—
Groats and encrides,
And other cakes, and fresh sweet honey.
Epicharmus, too, mentions them; and so does Nicophon, in his Handicraftsmen. And Aristophanes, in his Danaides, speaks of a man who made them in the following words:—
And not be a seller of encrides ([Greek: enkridopôlês]).
And Pherecrates, in his Crapatalli, says—
Let him take this, and then along the road
Let him seize some encrides.
There is the [Greek: epikyklios], too. This is a kind of cheesecake in use among the Syracusans, under this name; and it is mentioned by Epicharmus, in his Earth and Sea.
