Recipe - Cheesecake Italian Style

COOKIEDOUGH CRUST
1 cup Allpurpose flour
One fourth cup Sugar
One half cup Butter
1 Egg yolk
1 teaspoon Vanilla

FILLING
1 cn (20 ounces) crushed
pineapple; well drained
(option
4 Egg whites; room temperature
One half cup Sugar
16 ounce Ricotta cheese; drained,
necessary
8 ounce Cream cheese; softened
One fourth cup Allpurpose flour
1 teaspoon Vanilla
One half teaspoon Salt
2 Eggs; room temperature

Prepare crust, bake and cool; spread pineapple on crust; beat egg whites
until soft peaks form, gradually beat in sugar until whites are stiff and
shiny, set aside. Beat together cheeses, flour, vanilla and salt until
smooth. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each. Fold in egg
whites carefully but thoroughly. Pour into crust and bake in preheated 300
oven 70 min. or until cake tester comes out clean. Cool on cake rack, then
refrigerate. Run spatula around edge of cake to loosen, then remove from
pan.

COOKIE DOUGH CRUST Combine flour and sugar. Cut in butter til fine. Beat
yolk with vanilla, then work into flour with fork til well blended. Shape
in ball, put on sm. piece of wax paper and flatten to pancake shape. Chill
10 min. Put in bottom of 9" cheesecake pan and press with fingers to cover
bottom and 1" up sides. Bake in preheated 400 oven 1214 min. or until
lightly browned.

Posted on PRODIGY JANUARY 1994; formatted by Elaine Radis, PRODIGY BGMB90B;
GEnie, E.RADIS

Recipe by: =20

Posted to BakeryShoppe Digest by Becky Kivak bkivak@bellsouth.net on
Apriday,, l 11, 1998