March 22, 2004

silhouette3.JPG From the desk of Jane Galt:

New York (style) Eggnog Cheesecake

Those who were at my housewarming on Friday who asked for recipes were told that the entire collection was going up on the website this weekend. That was clearly a lie. But I'll be posting them throughout the week, so that anyone looking to replicate what they were served can.

The first recipe is for the cheesecake:

Ingredients:
1 cup gingersnap crumbs
3 Tbsp. sugar
2 Tbsp. butter or margarine, melted
5 pkg. (8 oz.) cream cheese, softened
1 cup sugar
3 Tbsp. flour
1 Tbsp. vanilla
3 eggs
1 cup sour cream
3 Tbsp. rum
1/2 tsp nutmeg

Mix crumbs, 3 tablespoons sugar and butter; press onto bottom of 9-inch springform pan. Bake at 350°F for 10 minutes.

Beat cream cheese, 1 cup sugar, flour and vanilla with electric mixer on medium speed until well blended. Add eggs, 1 at a time, mixing on low speed just until blended. Blend in sour cream. Stir rum and nutmeg into batter. Pour over crust. Sprinkle with additional nutmeg if desired.

Bake at 350°F for 1 hour and 5 minutes to 1 hour and 10 minutes or until center is almost set. Run knife around rim of pan to loosen cake; cool before removing rim of pan. Refrigerate 4 hours or overnight.

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Comments
Posted by: Robb on March 22, 2004 11:12 AM

Hmmm. My invitation must have gotten blocked at the firewall.

Posted by: Rand Simberg on March 22, 2004 2:38 PM

Jane, don't be so hard on yourself. It wasn't a lie (unless you really didn't intend to do it)--it was just a failed prediction.

Posted by: PJ/Maryland on March 22, 2004 5:22 PM

5 packages of cream cheese? Don't anybody bother to calculate the fat grams here; just figure a million and move on.

How egg-noggy was the cheese cake, anyway? I wouldn't think the eggs would be noticeable, so is it just the rum and nutmeg that does the flavoring?

Posted by: Good Ole Charlie on March 23, 2004 9:44 AM

My late father had a similar concoction for EggNog from a 1938 Life Magazine advert. He made it every year at Christmas.

The recipie featured one quart of heavy cream and a full fifth of Four Roses Canadian Whiskey. As you drank it you could feel the plaque depositing in your veins.

Good, though...

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