Subject: RECIPE: Food processor cheesecake
From: [email-masked] (John Ioannidis)
Date: 8 Apr 88 05:38:48 GMT
Newsgroups: alt.gourmand

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.RH MOD.RECIPES-SOURCE CHEESECAKE-8 D "10 Nov 87" 1988
.RZ "CHEESECAKE VIII" "Food processor cheesecake"
This is reputedly the 1980 A&S Cheesecake contest award winner. I
have an  \fIn\fRth generation copy of the recipe, but it
.I "is" 
the best cheesecake I have tasted.
.IH "One cheesecake"
.SH 		CRUST:
.IG "6 oz" "Zwieback cookies" "200 g"
.IG "\(34 cup" "sugar" "150 g"
.IG "1 tsp" "cinnamon" "5 ml"
.IG "\(14 lb" "butter" "100 g"
.SH		CAKE FILLING:
.IG "1\(12 lb" "cream cheese" "700 g"
.IG "1 cup" "sugar" "200 g"
.IG "4" "egg whites"
.IG "1\(12 tsp" "vanilla" "7.5 ml"
.SH		TOPPING:
.IG "2 cups" "sour cream" "500 ml"
.IG "2 Tbsp" "sugar" "20 ml"
.IG "\(12 tsp" "vanilla" "2.5 ml"
.IG "1/3 cup" "slivered almonds" "40 g"
.IG "1 Tbsp" "butter" "15 g"
.PH
.SK 1
Preheat oven to 
.TE 375 190 .
Use the steel blade of the food processor; drop the zwieback cookies
into the processor, one at a time, and process until fine. Add the
sugar and cinnamon. Melt butter and pour in. Process 2 seconds or
until crumbs are moistened. Reserve \(34 cup of crumbs. Press the rest
into bottom and sides of a buttered 
.AB "10 inch" "25 cm"
springform pan. Bake 10 minutes. Refrigerate 30 minutes. Wash the food
processor bowl.
.SK 2
Preheat oven to 
.TE 350 175 .
Cut the cheese into 
.AB "1 oz" "30 g"
pieces.  Process with steel blade until smooth. In another
bowl, beat the eggs until stiff. Blend sugar into the egg whites and pour
into processor bowl. Process with cream cheese until smooth. Add
vanilla. Process for 2 seconds. Pour mixture into crust and bake for
25 minutes.
.SK 3
Preheat oven to 
.TE 475 250 .
Mix together the sour cream, sugar and vanilla. Pour and spread over
the top of cake. Sprinkle reserved crumbs to cover topping. Arrange
slivered almonds over the crumbs. Bake for 7 minutes.
.SK 4
Refrigerate overnight. The next morning open the springform pan and
knock off excess crust
.NX
Enjoy.
.SH RATING
.I Difficulty:
moderate. Precision is required.
.I Time:
1\(12 hours.
.I Precision:
measure carefully.
.WR
John Ioannidis
Columbia University, New York, USA
[email-masked]