Cheese Cake

10 ingredients
15 steps

Ingredients

  • 45 vanilla wafers or 7 oz. vanilla wafer crumbs
  • 1/4 c. melted butter or margarine
  • 1 Tbsp. lemon juice
  • 3/4 c. sugar
  • 16 oz. cream cheese
  • 3 eggs, separated
  • 2 Tbsp. flour
  • 1/2 tsp. salt
  • 2/3 c. undiluted evaporated milk
  • 1 tsp. vanilla

Directions

  1. 1
    Crush wafers fine with a rolling pin.
  2. 2
    Add butter, lemon juice and 1 tablespoon sugar.
  3. 3
    Mix well.
  4. 4
    Press firmly on bottom and about half way up sides of a 9-inch spring-form cake pan.
  5. 5
    Beat cheese until softened.
  6. 6
    Add egg yolks and mix well.
  7. 7
    Add 1/2 cup sugar, the flour and salt.
  8. 8
    Blend.
  9. 9
    Beat in milk and vanilla. Beat egg whites until foamy.
  10. 10
    Add 1/4 cup sugar and beat until stiff, but not dry.
  11. 11
    Fold carefully and thoroughly into first mixture.
  12. 12
    Pour into crumb-lined pan.
  13. 13
    Bake at 350° for 50 minutes or until firm.
  14. 14
    Cool.
  15. 15
    Remove sides of pan.

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