Cheesecake

I've been meaning to post the cheesecake recipe mentioned earlier, in case you want to try it. I substitute limes for oranges, add sugar, and use ricotta instead of cottage cheese (I'm no fan of those lumps).

Margaret Fulton's Orange Curacao Cheesecake

60g butter
1/3 cup brown sugar
185g Granita biscuits, crushed
250g packet cream cheese
250g cottage cheese
2 eggs, separated
2/3 cup sour cream
2 tbsp caster sugar
grated rind and juice of 1 orange
1 envelope gelatine, dissolved in 2 tbsp water
2-3 tbsp Orange Curacao
To decorate:
2/3 cup whipped cream
1/2 orange, sliced

Melt the butter and stir in the brown sugar and biscuit crumbs.
Press onto the base of a 23cm loose-bottomed flan tin.
Chill until firm.
Mix together the cheeses in a mixing bowl, then beat in the egg yolks, sour cream and caster sugar. Stir in the orange rind and juice, dissolved gelatine, and Curacao. Leave until just on the point of setting, then fold in the stiffly whisked egg whites.
Pour onto the biscuit base and chill until firm. Decorate with piped whipped cream and orange slices.

Pretty bloody delish.

alotta ricotta

I am trying to master cheesecake. I thought I should learn a 'signature dish' and, given that we always have lots of eggs and limes in the house thanks to my parents, I thought lime cheesecake would fit the bill. Plus, I love limes to death.
I'm adapting a recipe from a Margaret Fulton cookbook from the 1970s called "Cooking with Eggs". Her unbaked cheesecake recipe is made with oranges and orange Curacao liqueur. First time I made it I forgot that oranges are sweeter than limes and I didn't add any sugar to the cheeses mix, so the resulting cake was very sour though I must say, still quite delicious thanks to the crushed Granita base (tres vintage!).
I've since tried it two more times with greater success, though working with gelatine is proving a novelty and a challenge. I managed to take a photo of the process the other day, but keep forgetting to take a photo of the finished product before it gets scoffed.

Is there anything more delicious than lime cheesecake? Hmm, wonder what a vodka and lime cheesecake would be like?
(And yes, I am filling my love-shaped hole with food and alcohol...)