Dessert

Leah's famous cheesecake is for Dessert.

Leah's famous cheesecake takes 70 minutes to prepare.

Leah's famous cheesecake takes 77 minutes to cook.

Leah's famous cheesecake makes 16 servings.

The ingredients for Leah's famous cheesecake are:

-----PASTRY-----
1 1/4 cup Flour -- all-purpose
3/4 cup Butter -- softened-1 1/2 stick
1/4 cup Sugar
1 Egg yolk -- large
Grated peel of 1 sm lemon
-----FILLING-----
5 package Cream cheese;softened -- ea 8oz
1 3/4 cup Sugar
5 Eggs -- large
1/4 cup half & half
3 tablespoon Flour -- all-purpose
2 Egg yolks -- large
Grated peel of 1 sm lemon

Here is how you make Leah's famous cheesecake:

1. First prepare pastry dough: In large bowl, with mixer at low speed, beat flour, butter, sugar, egg yolk and grated lemon peel until well mixed. Shape dough into ball; wrap with plastic wrap and refrigerate 1 hour. 2. Preheat oven to 400-degrees. Press 1/3 of dough onto bottom of 10″ x 2 1/2″ springform pan; keep remaining dough refrigerated. 3. Bake crust 8 minutes ot until golden; cool in pan on wire rack. Turn oven control to 475-degrees. 4. While crust is cooling, prepare filling: In large bowl, with mixer at medium speed, beat cream cheese just until smooth; slowly beat in sugar, scraping bowl often with rubber spatula. Add eggs, milk, flour, egg yolks amd lemon peel; beat 5 minutes, occasionally scraping bowl. 5. Press remaining dough around sides of pan to within 1-inch of top. Pour cream cheese mixture into crust. 6. Bake cheesecake 12 minutes. Turn oven control to 300-degrees; bake 35 minutes longer. Turn off oven; let cheesecake remain in oven 30 minutes. 7. Remove cheesecake from oven; cool completelty in pan on wire rack. Cover and refrigerate at least 4 hours or intil well chilled. 8. When cheesecake is firm, with spatula, loosen pan side from cheesecake and remove loosen cake from pan bottom; slide onto serving plate... Adapted from March 1992, Good Housekeeping...

The nutritional information for Leah's famous cheesecake is:

• Servings Per Recipe: 16
• Amount Per Serving
• Calories: 494.5

• Total Fat: 36.0 g
• Cholesterol: 194.7 mg
• Sodium: 296.5 mg
• Total Carbs: 37.2 g
• Dietary Fiber: 0.3 g
• Protein: 9.1 g