Cheese Cake

Ingredients

• 1 cup unsifted flour
• + cup sugar
• + 1b. butter or margarine
• ] egg yolk
• Grated rind of one lemon
• b= 16 OZ. pKe. Crean cheese
• 3 Tbsp flour
• 15 cups sugar
• 2 egg yolks
• 5 eggs
• + cup lemon juice
• Grated rind of ]1 lemon

Method

1. 1

   Mix flour, sugar and grated lemon rind.

2. 2

   Cut in butter with pastry blender and then add egg yolk.

3. 3

   Knead with fingers until dough is smooth.

4. 4

   Pat one-half of dough onto bottom of a 9'' spring-form pan.

5. 5

   Bake in 400 degree oven until lightly brown, approximately ten minutes.

6. 6

   Cool and then pat remaining dough around side of pan.

7. 7

   Set aside and prepare filling.

8. 8

   Place cream cheese in large bowl of electric mixer and beat at low speed until smooth and creamy.

9. 9

   Mix together, sugar, flour, salt and grated lemon rind and gradually add to creamed cheese, continuing to use low speed.

10. 10

    Slowly add eggs and yolks, one at a time.

11. 11

    Blend in lemon juice.

12. 12

    Pour filling into prepared pan.

13. 13

    Place in oven with a piece of aluminum foil between pan and rack.

14. 14

    Bake in 400 degree oven for ten minutes.

15. 15

    Reduce heat to 225 degrees and bake approximately one hour and twenty minutes.

16. 16

    Cool at room temperature.

17. 17

    Remove from pan by first taking sides away.

18. 18

    Refrigerate.

19. 19

    Use any fruit topping desired.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Recipes from our hearth (1960) by N.C.) Advent Moravian Church (Winston-Salem, page 4. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CHEESE CAKE Crust 1 cup unsifted flour + cup sugar + 1b. butter or margarine ] egg yolk Grated rind of one lemon Mix flour, sugar and grated lemon rind. Cut in butter with pastry blender and then add egg yolk. Knead with fingers until dough is smooth. Pat one- half of dough onto bottom of a 9'' spring - form pan. Bake in 400 degree oven until lightly brown, 29 CAKES approximately ten minutes. Cool and then pat remaining dough around side of pan. Set aside and prepare filling. Cheese Filling b= 16 OZ. pKe. Crean cheese 3 Tbsp flour 15 cups sugar 2 egg yolks 5 eggs + tsp. salt + cup lemon juice Grated rind of ]1 lemon

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