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Deluxe Cheesecake

-----LIZ JONES----- -----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 Milk

3 tablespoon Flour -- all-purpose

2 Egg yolks -- large

Grated peel of 1 sm lemon

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...

 

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