Old Fashioned Lemon Cheese Cake
- 5 egg yolks
- 1 c. plus 2 Tbsp. sugar
- 1 stick butter
- juice of 3 lemons (remove seeds)
- grated rind of 1/2 lemon
- 1 qt. milk
- 2 c. sugar
- 1/4 c. flour
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 4 eggs, slightly beaten
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 1 1/2 qt. light cream or dairy half and half
- Scald milk.
- Mix sugar, flour and salt.
- Add enough hot milk to flour mixture to make a thin paste.
- Stir paste into hot milk. Cook this combination over low heat, stirring constantly, until the mixture thickens slightly, for about 2 minutes.
- (Do not cook longer or eggs will curdle.)
- Cool this mixture quickly by placing it in the refrigerator.
- (Do not allow mixture to cool at room temperature.)
- Add vanilla and light cream to the cooled mixture. Pour into freezer can (hand-turned or electric).
- Fill only to two-thirds full to allow for expansion.
- Freeze and let ripen (recipe follows).
- This recipe makes 1 gallon of ice cream.
egg yolks, sugar, butter, lemons, lemon, milk, sugar, flour, salt, eggs, vanilla, light cream
Taken from www.cookbooks.com/Recipe-Details.aspx?id=271262 (may not work)