Cheese Cake

Recipes

CHEESE CAKE

1 lb pot cheese ( cottage cheese) (Charlotte left orders to put the cheese through a ricer, but modern small curd cottage cheese may not need this. I doubt if she would have tolerated low fat cheese.)
6 eggs separated
1 scant cup sugar
2 heaping tablespoons flour
1 teaspoon melted butter
pinch of salt
rind of a ¼ of a lemon, grated
vanilla
½ pint cream ( heavy of course)
Zwieback crumbs

Beat egg whites until light peaks form
Butter a spring mold. Sprinkle Zwieback crumbs over the butter. Beat the egg yolks, add sugar, flour, salt, rind, vanilla, and cream. Fold in the beaten egg whites gently.

Pour batter into spring mold and bake in slow oven ( 325°) for one hour.

Adventurous cooks separate eggs right over the main bowl. The rest of us separate each egg into two small dishes, pouring each one into two more small dishes. Thus if some yolk gets into a white, you can give that egg to the cat and try another one. Egg white will not beat into proper peaks if it has yolk in it.