Name: Curd Cheesecakes
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: Well-drained dry curd 1 lb; eggs 8 (but only use 5 of the whites); butter 6 oz.; castor sugar 6 oz.; grated lemon peel; ground ginger; a few currants; a little cream. Some short crust or puff pastry to line the patty-pans.

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Good Things in England

By Florence White

Published 1932

About

At the Whitsuntide Feast at Melton, it is said enough cheesecakes are made and eaten to pave the whole town. Mrs. Brewitt has kindly given her recipe. She is very generous, and all she gives is good.

Ingredients

Well-drained dry curd 1 lb
eggs 8 (but only use 5 of th

Method

Press the curd and butter through a sieve.
Add the flavouring, eggs, a few currants and a little cream.
Have ready some patty-pans greased and floured as usual and put a little of the curd mixture in each. Bake in a quick oven.