Valentine's Recipes > Cherry Cheesecake
4 tablespoons organic butter
4 tablespoons crushed digestive biscuits
for the cheesecake:
3 cups curd cheese
1/2 pint organic double cream
1 lemon
3 tablespoons sugar
1 sachet gelatin or equivalent agar agar
frozen or fresh stoned black cherries, about 3/4 lb
2 tablespoons brandy
1 tablespoon icing/confectioner's sugar
(see measure conversions for more information)
- Press mixture into the base of a loose bottomed 8-inch cake tin.
- Chill.
- Put the cherries in the brandy and stir in the icing sugar.
- Whip the cream until stiff.
- Sieve the curd cheese onto the cream and mix together.
- Grate a little of the lemon rind and squeeze out about 1 tablespoon of juice from the lemon.
- Add this to the cheese mixture.
- Melt the gelatin in about 2 tablespoons of hot water and when quite dissolved stir carefully into the cheesecake mixture.
- Pile this onto the biscuit base and chill for as long as possible, preferably over night.
- Before serving drain the cherries and spoon onto the cheesecake.
- Push cheesecake out of tin and serve.
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How to make cherry cheesecake:
Cheesecake is an old favorite for dessert. Always welcome and easily prepared in advance.
Ingredients
for the base:4 tablespoons organic butter
4 tablespoons crushed digestive biscuits
for the cheesecake:
3 cups curd cheese
1/2 pint organic double cream
1 lemon
3 tablespoons sugar
1 sachet gelatin or equivalent agar agar
frozen or fresh stoned black cherries, about 3/4 lb
2 tablespoons brandy
1 tablespoon icing/confectioner's sugar
(see measure conversions for more information)
Method
- Melt the butter and work the biscuit crumbs into it.- Press mixture into the base of a loose bottomed 8-inch cake tin.
- Chill.
- Put the cherries in the brandy and stir in the icing sugar.
- Whip the cream until stiff.
- Sieve the curd cheese onto the cream and mix together.
- Grate a little of the lemon rind and squeeze out about 1 tablespoon of juice from the lemon.
- Add this to the cheese mixture.
- Melt the gelatin in about 2 tablespoons of hot water and when quite dissolved stir carefully into the cheesecake mixture.
- Pile this onto the biscuit base and chill for as long as possible, preferably over night.
- Before serving drain the cherries and spoon onto the cheesecake.
- Push cheesecake out of tin and serve.
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