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My 'engagement' cheesecake

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Ingredients:
CRUST
16 Graham crackers*
4 tbspButter
FILLING
1 lbsCream cheese
1 pintSour cream
1 cupSugar
2 tbspFlour
1 tspVanilla
2 tbspLemon juice, fresh is best
5 Eggs
1 pinchSalt
Procedures:
1*could use cinnamon crisp cookies instead.
2Blend the sour cream and cream cheese well and add the egg yolks (which have been beaten first) and the other ingredients.
3Whip egg whites until stiff and fold cheese and yolk mixture in carefully.
4Make sure it is all incorperated.
5Pour into a springform pan and bake at 350 °F for one hour.
6Then leave door closed for one hour; and then oven door ajar for last5 hour (3 in all).
7Cake is creamy and smooth and may crack a bit on top.
8Good reason to make a strawberry topping.
9this cake was given to jeannie toll by one of mort"s old girlfriends about 37 years ago.
10She gave it to me when mort and i told her about our engaement...hence the title.
11Betty mondress gave me her "recipe" card as mine dissappeared years ago.
12I used my copy of the levittown sisterhood cookbook; (pa..circa 1957) until it disintegrated.
13Of course i submitted it as my own....
14Ellen; did you know that? mom was "bad"in her younger days!!!