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Cheesecake

Key notes

Serves:                   1 Cheesecake

Preparation Time:     30 minutes

Cooking Time:         2-3 hours 

Ingredients

8 oz digestive biscuit
3 oz butter
1 egg
4 oz caster sugar
pinch salt
4fl oz milk
15-25g gelatine
6-8 oz cottage cheese/ philidelphia/ quark
150ml whipping cream
1 dessert spoon lemon juice
1 teaspoon vanilla essence

Method

  1. Crush Biscuits and then melt the butter in a pan. Mix together and put into serving dish. Leave to set.

  2. Seperate Egg

  3. Beat egg yolk with sugar in large bowl over hot water until thick

  4. Add salt (optional), milk and continue to cook until starts to thicken

  5. Dissolve gelatine in 2 tablespoons of water and add to egg mixture and remove all from heat.

  6. Leave above to cook until it begins to set.

  7. Blend the cheese (if using a lumpy cheese it needs to be sieved)

  8. Mix in lemon juice and vanilla essence

  9. In a bowl whisk cream

  10. In another bowl whisk egg whites

  11. Fold cheese into 'custard' mixture

  12. Add cream and egg whites

  13. Pour over biscuits

  14. Allow to set (will take 2-3hrs)

  15. Add a fruit layer if desired (blackcurrants work well- if you want a slightly more solid layer then add 10g of gelatine to fruit mixture whilst boiling)

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