Vintage Recipe Love - ELEGANT CHEESE CAKE

From my archives, a decided as spring is coming and everyone will soon be clamoring with questions about what to do with berries.  Here is a nice cheese cake recipe which you can pile your berries atop and enjoy the bounties of spring.  Personally, straw, rasp or blue makes me no mind.  Just pile them on and make sure the cheese cake is thick and lucious.  

I have transcribed the text to print incase you want to cut and paste to your own book.  Yes, there are some mistakes, and I have tired to keep the text the same as was typed here. Do Mary Wilkening proud and make her cake.  Send me a pic of your beauty and let me post it here!  R-

 From HM0089 "Kaye Collection" 2015-12-03

ELEGANT CHEESE CAKE

1-1/2 cups fine zwieback (sic) crumbs (or crushed vanilla wagers or graham cracker crumbs)

2 tablespoons margarine or butter

2 tablespoons sugar

Blend the crumbs with margarine and sugar (melt margarine). Press into bottom of 9” spring pan. It is best to grease the pan with margarine so the crumbs stick to the bottom and sides.

1/2 cup sugar

2 tablespoons flour

1/4 teaspoon salt

2 8-oz. packages or cream cheese

   (one package will work if you want to save calories)

1 teaspoon vanilla

4 egg yolks

1 cup light cream

4 stiffly-beaten egg whites

Blend 1/2 cup sugar, flour, salt, and cream cheese (which has (sic) been softened at room temperature).  Add vanilla.  Stir in eff yolks and blend well.  Add cream.  (If you have heavy cream you may whip this first, then mix it in.) 

Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites.  Pour mixture on top of crumbs. 

Bake in moderate oven (325ºF. or 160ºC.) about 1-1/4 hours, or until set in the center.  If you like a moister cake, you can cook it a little less.

If you don’t use the glaze topping, save a few crumbs and lightly sprinkle then ontop (sic) before baking.

STRAWBERRY GLAZE

1 quart strawberries

1/2 cup sugar

3/4 cup water

2 tablespoons cornstarch

Red food coloring

Wash and decap (sic) berries.  Crush enough smaller berries to make 1 cup.  Add sugar and water, cook about 4 minutes.  Strain (optional).  Mix cornstarch with a little cold water and add to above mixture and cook until thick and clear (about 3 minutes). Add a few drops of red food coloring.  Arrange while berries on top of cake and pour glaze on top of berries and cake.  Chill

This glaze can be made with frozen berries if fresh are not available.  Just us the juice from the frozen berries, mix with cornstarch and a very little sugar and cook as above.  Raspberry or cherry toppings are also good.

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