Good Recipe for Lemon Cheesecakes

Ingredients

• one pint and a quarter of new milk
• the juice of one lemon
• one wine-glassful of vinegar
• two well-beaten eggs
• one whole egg
• one dessertspoonful of thick cream
• a quarter of a pound of ground almonds
• the rind and juice of one lemon
• one dessertspoonful of sugar

Method

1. 1

   Put the milk, lemon juice, vinegar, and eggs on to boil slowly to form a curd.

2. 2

   Strain through muslin.

3. 3

   When cold, add the whole egg, cream, ground almonds, lemon rind and juice, and sugar.

4. 4

   Pound well together and pass through a sieve.

5. 5

   Make tartlets of light puff pastry, fill with the mixture, and bake.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A second Dudley book of cookery and other recipes (1914) by Dudley, Georgiana Countess of, page 85. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

GOOD RECIPE FOR LEMON CHEESECAKES PUT on to boil one pint and a quarter of new milk, with the juice of one lemon, one wine- glassful of vinegar and two well-beaten eggs. Bring slowly to the boil to form a curd. Strain through muslin. When cold, add to the curd one whole egg, one dessertspoonful of thick cream, a quarter of a 271 THE DUDLEY RECIPES pound of ground almonds, the rind and juice of one lemon and one dessertspoonful of sugar

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