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Title: Red, White, & Blue Cheesecake
Yield: 12 Servings

Ingredients

           Almond Crust:
    1/2 c  shelled almonds
      1 c  flour
      2 tb sugar
    1/8 ts kosher salt
      6 tb unsalted butter
           Cheesecake Filling:
      2    lemons
           remove rinds, dice, and
           -juice
      2 lb ricotta cheese or cottage
           -cheese
    3/4 lb cream cheese
      1 c  sugar
      4    eggs
      2 tb flour
      2 ts almond extract
      1 ts vanilla extract
      1 tb dark rum; optional
      1 pt strawberries
      2 c  blueberries
      1    banana
    1/4 c  currant jelly
      2 tb kirsch or water

Instructions

To prepare crust, grind almonds together with 1/2 cup of the flour. Mix
with the remaining 1/2 cup flour, sugar, and salt. Cut butter into small
cubes, and rub into flour mixture with fingertips or pastry blender until
it resembles coarse crumbs. Add enough water to form a dough, and chill for
30 minutes. Roll out to fit a 9-inch springform pan. To prepare filling,
preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a 3-quart mixing bowl or the bowl of a
food processor, beat ricotta cheese together with cream cheese. When
smooth, gradually add sugar. Beat in eggs one at a time. Add flour, lemon
rind, and lemon juice to cream cheese filling with almond extract, vanilla,
and rum (if used). Place in crust, and bake for 1 hour and 20 minutes.
Remove from oven and cool for 1 hour. Chill filling for a minimum of 4
hours. It will keep in the refrigerator for 10 days. In a small saucepan,
mix currant jelly with kirsch. Heat briefly to dissolve jelly. Brush
currant-jelly glaze on fruit to keep fruit from drying out, retain the
fresh color, and give it a jewellike appearance.

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NOTES : Before serving time, stem strawberries and blueberries. Slice
banana into 1/4" thick slices. Decorate top of cheesecake with alternating
strawberries, blueberries, and banana slices. Yield: 10 to 12 servings.
Nutr. Assoc. : 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1268 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1582

Contributor: c 1995 Cole Group, Inc.

Preparation Time: 0:00

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