Cheesecake
From thewitchofendor 17 years ago
- 80 minutes to make
- Serves 12
This claims to be the original Lindy's recipe and it tastes like it. It's a tough recipe to make the first few times but you do eventually get into a groove even if you only make it 1 or 2 times a year.
Ingredients
- Crust shopping list
- 1 cup graham crackers shopping list
- ½ cup stick butter, softened shopping list
- ¼ cup sugar shopping list
- 1 tablespoon grated lemon peel shopping list
- 1 egg yolk shopping list
- Filling shopping list
- 5 packages (8 ounces each) cream cheese, softened shopping list
- 1 ¾ cups sugar shopping list
- 3 tablespoons gold medal all-purpose flour shopping list
- 1 tablespoon grated orange peel shopping list
- 1 tablespoon grated lemon peel shopping list
- ¼ teaspoon salt shopping list
- 5 eggs shopping list
- 2 egg yolks shopping list
- ¼ cup whipping (heavy) cream shopping list
How to make it
- Prep: 45 min; BAKE 1 hr 20 min; COOL: 15 min CHILL: 12 hrs
- Move oven rack to lowest position
- Preheat oven to 425
- Lightly grease 9x3 springform pan,
- Crust
- Mix all ingredients with hands. Press one-third of the mixture evenly on the bottom of the pan. Assemble bottom and side of pan; secure side. Press remaining mixture all the way up the side of the pan.
- Filling
- 5 packages (8 ounces each) cream cheese, softened
- 1 ¾ cups sugaqr
- 3 tablespoons gold medal all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon grated orange peel
- 1 tablespoon grated lemon peel
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 5 eggs
- 2 egg yolks
- ¼ cup whipping (heavy) cream
- Beat cream cheese, sugar, flour, and salt in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until smooth. Beat in eggs, egg yolks and ¼ cup whipping cream beating on low speed until well blended. Add orange peel, lemon peel stirring by hand. Pour into crust
- Bake 20 minutes
- Reduce oven temperature to 300. Bake about 45 minutes longer. Turn oven off and leave cheesecake in oven 15 minutes.
- Cool in pan on wire rack 15 minutes
- Run metal spatula along side of cheesecake to loosen. Refrigerate uncovered about 3 hours or until chilled; cover and continue refrigerating at least 9 hours but no longer than 48 hours
- Run metal spatula along side of cheesecake to loosen; remove side of pan
The Rating
Reviewed by 4 people-
love cheese cake high5 thanks
momo_55grandma
in Mountianview loved it
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Did you say Lindy's? Yummers, yummers. You have my 5. Great post.
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in Garland loved it
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