BASIC CHEESECAKE

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Ingredients:

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1 cup    graham cracker crumbs

3 tblsp  sugar

3 tblsp  butter or margerine, melted

4        8-ounce packages cream cheese, softened

1 cup    sugar

3 tblsp  flour

4        eggs

1 cup    sour cream

1 tblsp  vanilla

 

Instructions:

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Heat oven to 350F.  For Crust: Mix crumbs, 3 tbsp.  sugar, and butter.

Press onto bottom of 9-inch springform pan.  Bake 10 minutes

 

For Filling: Beat cream cheese, sugar, and flour at medium speed with

mixer until well blended.

 

Add eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition.  Blend in sour

cream and vanilla.  Pour over prepared crust.

 

Bake 1 hour and 10 minutes.

 

Turn off oven and prop door open and let cheesecake sit in oven until

oven has cooled.  Lossen cake from rim of pan.

 

Can be topped with fruits or whipped cream as desired.  (I think it

tastes best when refrigerated over night.)

 

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From: stevem@news.fai.com (Steven A. Minneman)