Name: Lemony Cheesecake
Ingredients: 24 oz No-Fat, No salt addeed, Dry Curd Cottage Cheese; 1 lg Lemon, juice of and; 1 lg Lime, juice of; 1 lg Lemon, zest of, finely chopped; 1 lg Lime, zest of, finely chopped; 6 tb Granulated Sugar; 1 ts Pure Vanilla Extract; 2 tb Cornstarch; 2 tb Instant Non-fat Dry Milk; 2 Egg Whites, Room Temoerature; 6 Low Fat, Low Salt Graham Crackers (up to 8)

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy, Eggs			8	-10

INGREDIENTS

24	oz	No-Fat, No salt addeed, Dry Curd Cottage Cheese
1	lg	Lemon, juice of and
1	lg	Lime, juice of
1	lg	Lemon, zest of, finely chopped
1	lg	Lime, zest of, finely chopped
6	tb	Granulated Sugar
1	ts	Pure Vanilla Extract
2	tb	Cornstarch
2	tb	Instant Non-fat Dry Milk
2		Egg Whites, Room Temoerature
6		Low Fat, Low Salt Graham Crackers (up to 8)

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Drain Cottage Cheese, using cheesecloth in sieve/colander - then puree
till fine grained.
2. Put cheese and all ingredients, except eggs and crackers, in large
mixing bowl. hand/blendor mix until smooth textured.
3. In separate bowl, beat egg whites to light peaks stage then mix into
into cheese mixture.
4. Heat oven to 325 degrees.
5. Using Corn/Vegetable Oil, spray sides and bottom of an 8-inch non-stick
springform cake pan
6. Crush/blendor mix crackers to fine crumbs and dust sides and bottom of
Pan (a sieve works best to get even coating). Leave remainder on bottom of
pan.
7. Pour mixture into pan and level top with a spatula.
8. Bake for about 60 minutes until center is firm and edges may be slightly
browned. Time will vary with ingredients and your oven.
9.Remove and cool then chill pan in refrigeratot for 2 hours. Remove and
serve.
10. For a more festive cake, decorate top with sliced Kiwi,&bsol; Fruit,
Strawberries 0r other fruit of your choice.
Many other versions can be made from basic recipe by excluding the lemon,
lime and sugar then substituting the following:
Ginger Cheesecake: Add 1-oz of crystallized Ginger, finely diced, 1-tsp
vanilla, 2-tsp lemon juice, 4-TBSP Sugar.
Confetti Cheesecake: Add 4-6 oz of dried fruit bits (the finely cut bits-
not the fruit mixture), 2-tsp Vanilla, 5-TBSP Sugar.
Chocolate-Mint Cheesecake: Add 2-TBSP Mint Jelly, 1-packet Low-Fat Cocoa
mix, 2-tsp Vanilla, 1-tsp Lemon Juice, Sugar to taste, about 5-TBSP.
Allspice Cheesecake: `Add 1/4 tsp Allspice Powder, 3 tsp Vanilla, 2-tsp
Lemon Juice, 5-6 TBSP Sugar.
Developed recipe by trial and error. It makes a sinfully-tasting cheesecake
with I estimate about 200 calories, max, per servineg Posted to Kitmailbox
Digest  by blucky@erols.com on Mar 07, 1997

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