1 1/2 cup graham cracker crumbs
1/4 cup butter, melted
1/2 cup vanilla sugar (see note)
3 large egg, separated
8 oz cream cheese, softened
3 tsp lemon juice, fresh
1 lemon rind, finely grated
1/2 cup raisins or currants
1/2 cup heavy cream, whipped *
A Recipe for
Lemon Cheesecake
Food Tip |
Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank. |
| Alphonse Allais |
Cutting stalks at noontime. Perspiration drips to the earth. Know you that your bowl of rice each grain from hardship comes? |
| Chang Chan-Pao |
This Recipe for Lemon Cheesecake is one of thousands in the Recipes-to-go Dessert Cookbook.
Some things you have to do every day. Eating seven apples on Saturday night instead of one a day just isn't going to get the job done. |
| Jim Rohn |
If you enjoy this Lemon Cheesecake Recipe - you should enjoy the recipe collections you can find on the websites below:
Hunger is the best sauce in the world. |
| Cervantes |
Food Tip |
This is a recipe for Lemon Cheesecake from the recipe cookbook of Recipes-to-go (Dessert)
Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm. |
| Ambrose Bierce |
Never eat more than you can lift. |
| Miss Piggy |
Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction. |
| John Cage |
There is no sincerer love than the love of food. |
| George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
There is a lot more juice in grapefruit than meets the eye. |
| Author Unknown |
There is no love sincerer than the love of food. |
| George Bernard Shaw, "The Revolutionist's Handbook," Man and Superman |
* comparable amount of dairy sour cream may be substituted.
Note: Vanilla sugar is made by placing a piece of vanilla bean in a
canister of sugar. Let it remain buried in the sugar several days or
until it perfumes and flavors the sugar. Also lovely to use over
fresh fruit in season.
Combine crumbs, butter and 2 tbsp sugar; press into bottom and sides
of greased 8" springform pan, reserving about 1/4 cup of mixture for
topping. Beat egg yolks well; gradually, beat in 1/4 cup vanilla
sugar, cream cheese, 2 1/2 tbsp lemon juice and lemon rind. Beat egg
whites until stiff but not dry; fold into cream mixture. Stir in
raisins or currants. Pile mixture into crust. Bake in preheated 300
degree oven for 50 minutes or until filling begins to brown on top.
Whip cream, add remaining lemon juice to sour it. Or use sour cream.
Add remaining vanilla sugar to cream. Spoon mixture over top; scatter
remaining crumbs over that. Bake 5 to 10 minutes longer. Chill well
until serving time. Makes one 8" cake.
Serves: 8
Lemon Cheesecake Recipe brought to you by Recipes To-Go