BS: Cheesecake recipe?

Subject: RE: BS: Cheesecake recipe?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 Dec 03 - 10:27 PM

It has suddenly turned quite cold down here in Texas. We're joining much of the rest of the continent in winter weather. It feels too cold for cheesecake now--instead I favor a warm bowl of bread pudding for dessert. Has anyone ever had it with raspberry melba sauce? It is to die for.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Cheesecake recipe?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 09 Dec 03 - 08:56 PM

"I see a red drink and I wanna paint it black!"

Subject: RE: BS: Cheesecake recipe?
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 09 Dec 03 - 07:50 PM

I thought this thread was about cheesecake: how did we get on to soft drinks??
UK palette? Simply red? Paint it black? Soft palate? Hard Palate?

Subject: RE: BS: Cheesecake recipe?
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 09 Dec 03 - 03:54 PM

Donuel: It was Foul. But probably OK for a UK palette -- what's THAT supposed to mean?

Subject: RE: BS: Cheesecake recipe?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Dec 03 - 09:11 PM

Eeeewww--I cycle through soft drinks (often times based on what's on sale), though for a long time I refused to drink aspartame at all. I gave up trying to avoid it, but I drink mostly Diet RC and Diet Rite cola now (they have Splenda). I guess for my soft drink consumption I need to stick with those! I didn't drink any of the diet drinks when I was pregnant or nursing. So hopefully my kids won't have cause to shoot me later when world health starts crumbling due to prenatal aspartame.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Cheesecake recipe?
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 08 Dec 03 - 07:37 PM

No curd cheese is not the same as cottage cheese: it's smoother and more sort of homogeneous, but don't ask me about the fat/protein ratios! I suppose it's a bit like mascarpone or ricotta.

Subject: RE: BS: Cheesecake recipe?
From: MMario
Date: 08 Dec 03 - 06:36 PM

Donuel - WHICH NY cheesecake?

Subject: RE: BS: Cheesecake recipe?
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Dec 03 - 06:09 PM

Just made the NY cheese cake recipe from above.

It was Foul. But probably OK for a UK palette.

Subject: RE: BS: Cheesecake recipe?
From: YorkshireYankee
Date: 07 Dec 03 - 10:57 PM

US "cookie" = UK "biscuit"

A "digestive biscuit" is sweeter than a (US) cracker but not as sweet as most cookies. It's very plain & simple (like a graham cracker) and is (I presume) considered:
A) easily digestible or
B) good for the digestion or
C) both the above

My (English) husband adds, "It's that little bit softer than a 'rich tea biscuit'", which I'm sure makes it all *much* clearer, yes?

The American-British/British-American Dictionary says:
"digestive biscuits n :
dangerously addictive drug with no known remedy. Actually, it's just a semi-sweet wholemeal biscuit, and you can sometimes get them at Safeway, but they probably epitomize what any British person thinks of as a biscuit, and for those addicts, a cup of tea and biscuits ends up being as many cups of tea required to consume the whole packet. (So there!)"

(If you look up "graham crackers", it says "these are like a semi-sweet biscuit, similar in texture to a light digestive biscuit, and eaten as is, and also often crushed to make a pie crust."

If you want to see a picture of a digestive biscuit (sort of -- it's on the packaging), click
here.

Cheers,

YY

Subject: RE: BS: Cheesecake recipe?
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Dec 03 - 09:36 PM

What IS a digestive biscuit? It sounds reprehensible.

Subject: RE: BS: Cheesecake recipe?
From: YorkshireYankee
Date: 07 Dec 03 - 07:57 PM

About the recipe for Mini Cheesecakes -- a convenient cheat is to simply place a 'Nilla Wafer in the bottom of each "cup". Not *quite* as nice as a proper graham cracker (or digestive biscuit) crust, but nice & quick and still *very* tasty indeed.

Cheers,

YY

Subject: RE: BS: Cheesecake recipe?
From: open mike
Date: 07 Dec 03 - 06:59 PM

is curd cheese the same as "cottage cheese"?

Subject: RE: BS: Cheesecake recipe?
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Dec 03 - 09:25 AM

Hey Donuel, I found this ........

"Liquid products that use aspartame have a short shelf life. This is because the aspartame slowly changes from the 10% methanol content into formaldehyde. Regardless, because once it is consumed there is NO natural antidote of ETHANOL (as there is in fresh fruit) to counter the methanol... so the liver readily changes it into formaldehyde. Then, if the formaldehyde doesn't get stored in the fat with a bit of water (that's called "weight gain"), the body changes it into formic acid (otherwise known as ant sting poison)."

Nice cocktail, eh?

Subject: RE: BS: Cheesecake recipe?
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 06 Dec 03 - 07:45 PM

I had a great recipe, also using a mixture of curd cheese (? 1 lb) with cream cheese (quarter pound) which isn't as high in fat as all cream cheese. 2 beaten eggs also which helped it to set when cooked for half an hour at 150deg C. Sour cream on top, and biscuit base much better if you use ginger nut biscuits ( harder to crush unless you use a food processor. In UK main source of curd cheese was Sainsbury's but haven't made one for ages, so don't know if it's still available.

Subject: RE: BS: Cheesecake recipe?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 06 Dec 03 - 06:04 PM

Sultanas, Raisins, and Currants are dried from particular types of Grapes. Don't know the specfic details, or if they are also used in winemaking, but "Sultana Grapes" are often sold labelled as such in Australia.

Subject: RE: BS: Cheesecake recipe?
From: GUEST,Ely
Date: 06 Dec 03 - 03:59 PM

Got this from the owner of one of our patients. I *personally* haven't had a chance to make it yet, but she made one for us and it was fabulous. It's a little lighter than "regular" cheesecake (Creole cream cheese is not as fatty as Philadephia style). I have not, however, heard anything about what it tastes like made with sugar substitutes. Nor am I good with metric conversions, if you're from a metric country.

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CREOLE CHEESECAKE (Louisiana style)

CRUST:
5 cups crushed graham crackers
2 sticks butter, melted
1 cup sugar
    --> blend and press into a 10-inch springform pan

FILLING:
2 pounds regular cream cheese, softened to room temperature
1 cup sugar
2 eggs, beaten
1 1/2 cups Creole cream cheese (or ricotta cheese, in a pinch)
    --> cream together regular cream cheese and sugar. Combine eggs and Creole cream cheese. Mix the two. Pour into pan and bake.

TOPPING:
1 cup sour cream
3 tablespoons sugar
    --> mix and spread over cheesecake when it first comes out of the oven

Subject: RE: BS: Cheesecake recipe?
From: Peg
Date: 06 Dec 03 - 10:06 AM

good point Donuel (though I had always heard it turned into methanol).

The stuff is just plain bad news and should not be ingested by humans at all. Ever known anyone who drank Diet Coke? They don't just drink a bit of it once in while; they drink two or more liters a day, usually. I have a friend who is a vegetarian for "health reasons" who is addicted to the stuff....

For those for whom sugar and fat are not dangerous, just fattening, just think balance. Walk an extra mile, have a salad for lunch the next day, etc. Life is too short to cook with fat-free sour cream, and artificial stuff is not good for you.

Subject: RE: BS: Cheesecake recipe?
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Dec 03 - 07:57 AM

When Aspartame is cooked to 100 F it turns into formaldehyde.

DO NOT DO IT

Subject: RE: BS: Cheesecake recipe?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 06 Dec 03 - 05:59 AM

I always go here for my recipes.

Recipe source

Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Cheesecake recipe?
From: Peg
Date: 05 Dec 03 - 05:21 PM

Trader Joe's makes a Key Lime Cheesecake that I just love...

I have never tried to make one but I have always found that the idea of chocolate or mocha or what-not on a cheescake is kind of unappealing. I think I would make it plain, or maybe add orange or lemon or lime...

I have had pumpkin cheesecake, and as long as it is not too sweet, I thuink it's fab.

Subject: RE: BS: Cheesecake recipe?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Dec 03 - 09:54 AM

That recipe should be illegal.

Now I'll go get a cloth and wipe the drool off of my keyboard. . .

Subject: RE: BS: Cheesecake recipe?
From: the lemonade lady
Date: 05 Dec 03 - 08:57 AM

I'm sorry I haven't had time to read all the others but here's mine...

One packet of Chocolate bicuits (the type completely covered with choc)

Some butter

Half a tin of condensed milk (the thick gloopy stuff)

One small carton (tub) of Philidephia cheese

One Lemon (of course!) juice and guts not peel

An expanding sandwich cake tin

This is what you do... Whizz the biscuits in a food processor till they are crumbs. Pour into a bowl with some melted butter. Pour all of that into the cake tin and press it not only across the bottom of the tin but thickly up the walls as well. Put it in the fridge while you...
whizz up the other ingredients (cheese, lemon stuff and gloop) in the processor, pour that into the cake tin on top of the biscuits. It will be runny. Don't worry it sets within ten mins. You can put fruit of your choice on the top, or dribbled melted choc.

I have a friend who chefs in a hotel and this he sells at £2.50 per slice!

Subject: RE: BS: Cheesecake recipe?
From: MMario
Date: 05 Dec 03 - 08:22 AM

Bread machines are the tool of the Devil. The best part of bread baking is the mixzing and kneading.

Subject: RE: BS: Cheesecake recipe?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 04 Dec 03 - 04:28 PM

This is one of those breads that requires some TLC. You can't make it very well in the bread machine because all of the fruit scratches up the baking pan and it has to rise longer than the bread machine allows for. The chemistry of the fruit and such seems to slow down the yeast, so it takes several hours.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Cheesecake recipe?
From: GUEST,MMMMMmmmmario
Date: 04 Dec 03 - 03:32 PM

cardamon bread. I need to make some.

My b-i-l will be happy - he thinks I'm killing myself by reducing my bread intake.

Subject: RE: BS: Cheesecake recipe?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 04 Dec 03 - 03:14 PM

I've seen the panatone in the store, but I think it's a lighter bread both in color and material. I have a handwritten recipe from a friend that I'll transcribe and post later. This has some fruitcake fruit and raisins, but it's a yeast bread and has cardamom as its spice.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Cheesecake recipe?
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 04 Dec 03 - 02:55 PM

So, are you going to share the Julekaka recipe? Is it like the Italian panatone?

Subject: RE: BS: Cheesecake recipe?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 04 Dec 03 - 02:33 PM

My mother was born in Ballard. When I was a child we lived in West Seattle for a while before moving to Everett.

Subject: RE: BS: Cheesecake recipe?
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 04 Dec 03 - 02:21 PM

If memory serves SRS, were you from Seattle originally? My ex's dad was from the Norwegian community there (Johanus Stokkeland).

No slur intended on the cultural front by the way.

Subject: RE: BS: Cheesecake recipe?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 04 Dec 03 - 01:15 PM

Translate them to "Yule cake" and "crumb cookie" then, but they're both wonderful and as someone who grew up in a Norwegian community I've ignored such slurs all of my life.

No lutefisk around here in Texas, but we do get some nice little jars of pickled herring that come from a Canadian producer.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Cheesecake recipe?
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 04 Dec 03 - 12:33 PM

eeewww ...

Subject: RE: BS: Cheesecake recipe?
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Dec 03 - 12:30 PM

Doesn't most food end in kaka (eventually)?

Subject: RE: BS: Cheesecake recipe?
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 04 Dec 03 - 12:18 PM

Sultanas are the white (well, yellow) raisins.

SRS, are you really going to make something that ends in kaka? ;o)

Subject: RE: BS: Cheesecake recipe?
From: GUEST,boromir
Date: 04 Dec 03 - 11:43 AM

SRS

What? No Lutefisk?

Subject: RE: BS: Cheesecake recipe?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 04 Dec 03 - 10:23 AM

And a raisin. Isn't it one of the golden colored ones?

Subject: RE: BS: Cheesecake recipe?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 04 Dec 03 - 02:51 AM

A Sultana is the wife of a Sultan

Subject: RE: BS: Cheesecake recipe?
From: open mike
Date: 04 Dec 03 - 01:29 AM

whats is (or are sultanas)
I am glad to see the tofu
recipe on here.

from an old dairy man i
remember this saying;
"a pint is a pound
the world around"
so if the recipe calls
for 2 pounds of cheese
that means 2 pints.
(or a quart which is 4 cups)


and yes i will be going to a
Swedish Santa Lucia dinner
and there will be lots of cookies.
I think i will make Rosettes, which
are fried with an iron, and are
crispy little butterflies and flowers.

Subject: RE: BS: Cheesecake recipe?
From: GUEST,Stilly River Sage
Date: 04 Dec 03 - 01:02 AM

Wrong side of the country, Jeri. Head east. But you might want to stop off in the Mudcat tavern since he's there cooking wyvern and other prehistoric delicacies right now.

Subject: RE: BS: Cheesecake recipe?
From: Jeri
Date: 03 Dec 03 - 03:01 PM

MMario, just where the hell do you live?! Wherever it is, it's not too far. SINSULL and I can Jello wrestle for you, or we can just all move to Utah...

Subject: RE: BS: Cheesecake recipe?
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 03 Dec 03 - 02:53 PM

I'm thinking of making chocolate bread pudding with hard sauce. It's actually a traditional holiday desert in my sister's in-laws family - but I have this craving....

Subject: RE: BS: Cheesecake recipe?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Dec 03 - 02:43 PM

Is anyone making something special for the holidays? I'll be making a couple of Julekaka (a fruitcake-like bread) and Krumkaka (a cookie batter cooked on an iron).

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Cheesecake recipe?
From: Joe_F
Date: 01 Nov 03 - 06:51 PM

My mother's recipe (every ingredient lethal):

Cheesecake a la belle Helene

Best baked a day early.

Line springform with

1/2 stick melted butter
1/3 box crushed vanilla wafers

Mix with an electric mixer

4 large packets Philadelphia cream cheese
5 eggs
1 cup sugar
1/2 grated lemon rind & juice of 1/2 lemon
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
Cointreau or brandy or rum ad lib.
1 pinch salt

Pour carefully into springform. Bake about 1 hour at 350 deg F.

Mix

1 pint sour cream
1/4 cup sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 pinch salt

Set oven at 450 deg F. Take cake out & cover with the above mixture.
Return to oven for 5 minutes. Turn off heat, open door, and let be.
When cool enough to handle, remove from oven & release from
springform. When at room temperature, store, covered, in
refrigerator. A paper towel over the top, under the cover, will
absorb sweating.

Subject: RE: BS: Cheesecake recipe?
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 01 Nov 03 - 06:37 PM

Well, in the end I opted to make a no-bake CC from the recipe on the inside of a Knox gelatin packet. It was huge-- 9" diameter --and every last bit disappeared. I'm now the local hero. Thanks to all of you. I was going to make the baked kind today but I'm helping my 8-year-old to do post-Halloween research on just how they get the filling into the Caramilk bar ... ;o)

Subject: RE: BS: Cheesecake recipe?
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 31 Oct 03 - 11:20 AM

I've found that both aspertame and sacherine add t omy water rentention (so nice to be medically classed as both dehydrated and retaining excess water at the same time. - which I have at times)

Spenda doesn't seem to do that. Haven't tried Stevia.

Subject: RE: BS: Cheesecake recipe?
From: EBarnacle
Date: 31 Oct 03 - 11:18 AM

Jeri, I suspect that the cheesecake you were eating back then was made with cottage cheese or ricotta or was simply old and tired.

Subject: RE: BS: Cheesecake recipe?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 31 Oct 03 - 11:15 AM

Saccharine has been in use commonly for not quite a century. Back when they decided to test it and were cramming lab rats full of it, they were making them sick. That was amounts like 1000x what you would take in a day, and that much of anything will make you sick. I read a study a few years ago that said when large study groups are reviewed (and there are many human studies now) and under normal usage, saccharine shows absolutely no increased risk of cancer or other illnesses. But you have to understand that what they did to those lab rats to set off the alarms was so bizarre that it skewed the results and people panicked.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Cheesecake recipe?
From: jacqui.c
Date: 31 Oct 03 - 04:03 AM

Try this one

1/2lb curd cheese
1/4pint double cream
Sultanas pre-soaked in Amaretto or sherry
2oz caster sugar
squeeze of lemon juice

Base
1/2 pack digestive biscuits
4oz butter
2 oz ground almonds

Melt the butter and mix in the digestives and almonds. Press into a cake tin with a removeable base. Leave to cool.

Whip the cream until stiff. Add the remainder of the ingredients. Mix well. Pour into the tin. Leave to set for at least two hours, preferably overnight. CAREFULLY push out of tin. Enjoy!

You can experiment with chocolate digestive base or other alcohol for the sultanas.

Subject: RE: BS: Cheesecake recipe?
From: GUEST,pdc
Date: 31 Oct 03 - 01:09 AM

SRS, isn't saccharine bad for you? Splenda acts and tastes like sugar, and according to many sources is perfectly safe. I think saccharine has problems, hasn't it?

Subject: RE: BS: Cheesecake recipe?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 31 Oct 03 - 12:40 AM

Dog tart could be a little ruff....

"Georgian Tea" from near Russia contains Stevia leaves...

Robin

Subject: RE: BS: Cheesecake recipe?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Oct 03 - 11:47 PM

Stevia is used in places like Japan in the diet drinks, but the aspartame industry here has lobbied heavily against it, as has probably the sugar industry. I found it in a health food store, and it doesn't take much. I find it a little harder to make disolve in my tea. I haven't used it in a while, I have lazily switched back to the little saccharine tablets. But it is great. And Splenda is found in some soft drinks around here, Diet RC and Diet Rite Cola.

Big Pink, I didn't list mushrooms, but I'm sure when I got to that point I'd have remembered to put some in the quiche. Thanks for the reminder! I can't get the wonderful wild ones you do, I'll have to settle for the little white mushrooms from the grocery store.

I knew Alsatian was a breed of dog, and to bring this closer back to cheese again, a friend of mine had a keeshound, which I'm told meant "cheese hound" in German. Any confirmation on that?

SRS