Old Fashioned Lemon Cheese Cake

12 ingredients
11 steps

Ingredients

  • 5 egg yolks
  • 1 c. plus 2 Tbsp. sugar
  • 1 stick butter
  • juice of 3 lemons (remove seeds)
  • grated rind of 1/2 lemon
  • 1 qt. milk
  • 2 c. sugar
  • 1/4 c. flour
  • 1/2 tsp. salt
  • 4 eggs, slightly beaten
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • 1 1/2 qt. light cream or dairy half and half

Directions

  1. 1
    Scald milk.
  2. 2
    Mix sugar, flour and salt.
  3. 3
    Add enough hot milk to flour mixture to make a thin paste.
  4. 4
    Stir paste into hot milk. Cook this combination over low heat, stirring constantly, until the mixture thickens slightly, for about 2 minutes.
  5. 5
    (Do not cook longer or eggs will curdle.)
  6. 6
    Cool this mixture quickly by placing it in the refrigerator.
  7. 7
    (Do not allow mixture to cool at room temperature.)
  8. 8
    Add vanilla and light cream to the cooled mixture. Pour into freezer can (hand-turned or electric).
  9. 9
    Fill only to two-thirds full to allow for expansion.
  10. 10
    Freeze and let ripen (recipe follows).
  11. 11
    This recipe makes 1 gallon of ice cream.

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