Grandmothers Cheese Cake Shopping List:
Dough:
1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
¾ teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt
¼ cup butter or margarine
1 egg
3 tablespoons sour cream
½ cup confectioners’ sugar
Filling:
6 eggs
2 cups confectioners’ sugar
1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
1 pound farmer cheese or ricotta
½ cup melted butter
1 ½ cups unseasoned mashed potatoes
2 teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon nutmeg
½ teaspoon salt
¼ cup grated orange or lemon peel
Grandmothers Cheese Cake Preparation Instructions:
1. For dough, combine flour, baking powder, and salt in a bowl. Cut in butter with a pastry blender.
2. Beat egg into sour cream. Stir into flour mixture. Stir in sugar. Knead dough until well mixed and smooth.
3. Roll dough on a floured surface into a rectangle. Line a 13x9x2-inch pan with dough, and bring dough part way up sides.
4. For filling, separate 1 egg and reserve the white. Beat remaining yolk and whole eggs with the sugar 5 minutes at high speed of electric mixer. Add vanilla extract. Beat at high speed until mixture piles softly.
5. Press cheese through a sieve. Blend cheese with butter; add potatoes, baking powder, nutmeg, and salt. Stir in orange peel. Fold into egg mixture. Turn into prepared crust in pan.
6. Bake at 350° F about 45 minutes, or until set. Cool.
7. Cool well before cutting.
Grandmothers Cheese Cake Recipe: ABOUT 32 PIECES
Grandmothers Cheese Cake