Polish Cheesecake Sernik
From kutadkubilik 15 years ago
- 50 minutes to make
- Serves 8
Cheesecake has to be a special guest on each Polish Easter table, same as during the Christmas time, but same time it has a very privileged place in the ordinary, non-festive period. It means that it is one of the most beloved cakes in Poland and so it is, together with apple pie. Read more Cheesecake can be baked or cooled, light as a mousse or heavy and thick, with a differrent consistency that depends on adding gelatine, sour cream, milk or cooked egg yolks, flavoured with cocoa, peaches, jello, orange succade, lemon juice or sour cherries, underside with biscuit crumbs, layer of cake or anything... The big differrence in cheesecakes worldwide is the cheese that we use. In Poland it would be twaróg, a kind of quark or curd, which can be sold already mashed into a silky cream, or you mash it on your own. Nevertheless, people sometimes follow American standards and add philadelphia cheese. There also are cheesecakes with thick balcan yoghurt instead of cheese. See less
Ingredients
- Polish cheesecake (sernik) shopping list
- Polish: sernik shopping list
- 1 lb quark / curd / twaróg shopping list
- 4 egg whites shopping list
- 4 egg yolks + two more* shopping list
- 2 tablespoons custard powder or potato starch shopping list
- 2 tablespoons wheat flour shopping list
- 9 tablespoons melted butter shopping list
- 9 tablespoons oil (mine was poppyseed oil) shopping list
- 1 1/2 cup powdered sugar shopping list
- 1/2 cup raisins shopping list
- a handful of orange succade shopping list
- 1 cup boiling tea shopping list
- (underside is of your choice: none, layer of yeast cake or pie crust, biscuit crumbs with melted butter or just a layer of biscuits or a big wafer) shopping list
How to make it
- 1. Mash quark carefully. Pour boiling tea over raisins and set aside.
- 2. Beat 4 yolks with sugar. Prepare two yolks more: they have to be cooked.* You have two options: cook whole eggs, eat whites and take yolks, or separate whites and yolks from a raw egg, use whites anyhow you wish in other dessert and cook yolks (unbroken!) in a saucepan with boiling water with 2 tablespoons of vinegar.
- 3. Press cooked yolks through a sieve precisely, mix with beaten raw yolks. Mix butter and oil with well mashed (until silky!) quark
- 4. Combine eggs batter with quark. Add sieved custard powder and flour, succade and drained raisins
- 5. Beat 4 wgg whites until stiff and pour into quark, mix gently. Pour the mass into a tray (with wafer, biscuit crumbs, layer of cake or just butter with breadcrumbs) and bake - about 1 hour in 350(as always, you have to be near the oven and check, check, check!)
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I love this recipe make with Twarog Cheese candied orange peels "Orange Succade". THe flavors combined would be so wonderful. Thank you for sharing this recipe. I have it filled for future making! Five Forks!
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