West Coast Cheesecake

This recipe, as simple as it is, has been highly praised for years by cheesecake lovers. It was given to me by default many years ago by a young woman who had a summer job in my kitchen. She kept asking me to make cheesecakes, saying that many customers had requested them. My consistent reply was that I didn’t have time to add another item, and besides that, I didn’t even have a good recipe. Not one to give up, she said her mother had a great recipe and she could even make the cheesecakes h