Chilled Lemon Cheesecake

Name: Chilled Lemon Cheesecake
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: 450 g/1 lb cream cheese; 100 g/4 oz castor sugar; juice and finely grated rind of 2 lemons; 1 170 - g/6- fl oz carton double cream; 8 digestive biscuits; 4 tablespoons water; 15 g/½ oz powdered gelatine; 50 g/2 oz butter; 3 large eggs; 1 level tablespoon castor sugar

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Times Calendar Cookbook

By Katie Stewart

Published 1977

About

This cheesecake, set with gelatine, has a smooth, mousse-like texture and a crunchy biscuit base. It makes a very nice spring dessert and is particularly good served with strawberry or raspberry sauce.

Ingredients

4 tablespoons water
15 g/½ oz powdered gelatine

Cake
Dessert
Spring
Vegetarian

Method

Measure the water into a saucepan, sprinkle in the gelatine and set aside to soak for 5 minutes. Stir over low heat until the gelatine has dissolved; draw off the heat ready to use.

Separate the eggs, placing the yolks in one basin and the whites in a second larger basin. Add the sugar, lemon juice and finely grated lemon rind to the egg yolks. Place the basin over a saucepan half fille