Cheesecake has to be a special
guest on each Polish Easter table,
same as during the Christmas time,
but same time it has a very
privileged place in the ordinary,
non-festive period. It means that
it is one of the most beloved cakes
in Poland and so it is, together
with apple pie. Cheesecake can be
baked or cooled, light as a mousse
or heavy and thick, with a
differrent consistency that depends
on adding gelatine, sour cream,
milk or cooked egg yolks, flavoured
with cocoa, peaches, jello, orange
succade, lemon juice or sour
cherries, underside with biscuit
crumbs, layer of cake or
anything... The big differrence in
cheesecakes worldwide is the cheese
that we use. In Poland it would be
twarog, a kind of quark or curd,
which can be sold already mashed
into a silky cream, or you mash it
on your own. Nevertheless, people
sometimes follow American standards
and add philadelphia cheese. There
also are cheesecakes with thick
balcan yoghurt instead of cheese.