Cheesecake...or is it a pie?

I love cheesecake, original cheesecake. So when I searched through the various cookbooks in my house for a cheesecake recipe I made sure I chose one that did not have extra toppings, like walnuts or strawberries. The one I ended up using had the option of adding pie filling as a topping, but I did not add it. Now, making this cheesecake was an interesting process. First off, my mom has never made a cheesecake before, therefore I did not have the benefit of her experience in making sure the mixture looked right, and to top it all off my Vovo (a.k.a. my great-grandmother) told my mom over the phone that a cheesecake was too difficult for me to bake. What an encouraging start... Despite my lack of confidence in how the dessert would turn out in the end, I began the recipe. The crust came first. Not only was the crust more sticky than the Irish soda bread dough, it probably took me a half an hour to attempt to evenly spread it around the whole pan. Finally I moved onto actually making the filling of the cheesecake. I followed the instructions and ended up with a white almost liquid batter. Both my mom and I believed I had followed the recipe wrong, but after double checking a couple times I realized i had not made a mistake. After pouring the batter into the crust, I had to place the dessert in the oven. In order to do that, I had to walk all the way across my kitchen with a 9inX13inX2in pan practically full with a liquid like mixture. Barely making it to the oven, I slowly and carefully entered the cheesecake into the oven. Now I just had to sit and wait 50 minutes. 50 minutes became 55, which became an hour and 5 minutes, because I had no idea how to tell if the cheesecake had finished cooking; the dessert still jiggled a little in the middle when I attempted to take it out of the oven instead of remaining firm. Eventually, after 15 extra minutes of cooking, I discovered the cheesecake was indeed cooked and I could let it cool. Hey, the cheesecake turned out okay and I really enjoyed baking it so I must have done something right.

History...
As early as 9000BC, human populations have known about cheese, a food created from the milk of an animal. The first time historians have found evidence of cheese in a cake like form was in the 5th century BC in Ancient Greece. As a treat for behaving, children sometimes would receive cheese-cakes--a mixture of cheese, flour, and honey. Today cheesecakes alter greatly from their original roots, instead of real cheese, cream cheese often becomes the major ingredient in the dessert. Honey, also, no longer sweetens the cakes, instead cooks use sugar and other modern sweeteners. Even though the recipe for cheesecakes has changed greatly over the span of time it has existed, the fact that a form of the dessert existed in ancient Greece amazes me. Some little kid from centuries and centuries ago could of had the same favorite dessert as me.