Nana's Cheesecake

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The original: Nana's Cheesecake

Ingredients

  • Crumb layer
  • 2/3 box crushed zwieback.
  • 1/2 stick butter, melted
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
  • Cake Layer
  • 1 1/2 pints cottage cheese, drained well. (bracketed with the next line; margin note: “mix well.”)
  • 4 well beaten eggs
  • add 1 cup sugar
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 cup cream
  • 8 ounces soft cream cheese
  • Add 3 tablespoons flour sifted with 1 teaspoon baking powder.

Method

350°

Crumb layer: mix. Pour 2/3 into bottom of springform pan. Bake 8-10 minutes.

Cake Layer: mix well. (margin note beside the brace joining the cottage cheese and the eggs)

add (margin note in front of “1c. sugar”; the sugar through the cream cheese follow)

Add 3 tablespoons flour sifted with 1 teaspoon baking powder.

Strain through colander or sieve.

Pour onto crust. Sprinkle with remaining crumbs.

Bake 1 hour. 350°.

Chill.