Simple Cheesecake
"Adapted from a recipe I found in Sunset magazine around 1970. Back in those bad old days there were no frozen cheesecakes and recipes for cheesecake were few and far between. My mother loved cheesecakes and was thrilled when I found a recipe. This makes a firm, dense product. Preparation time doesn't include cooling."
photo by lauralie41
- Ready In:
- 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 6
- Serves:
-
8
ingredients
- 8 ounces cream cheese
- 1⁄4 cup granulated sugar
- 1⁄2 cup sour cream
- 2 eggs
- 1 prepared graham cracker pie crust
-
optional topping
- 1⁄2 2 cups fresh strawberries (optional) or 2 cups prepared Jello gelatin (optional)
directions
- Mix cream cheese, sugar, sour cream and eggs.
- Pour into pie shell.
- Bake at 350°F for 25 minutes or till a 3 inch circle in center jiggles.
- Cool 3 hours or overnight.
- Serve with desired topping. Lemon Jello is especially pretty.
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Reviews
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This was awesome, I made as stated and used cherry topping and dh absolutely loved it.. Thanks country wife for a great recipe that I will use again. :) -
Simple is what this cheesecake really is! In no time at all I had the ingredients blended together and the cheesecake in the oven. I did refrigerate overnight and we enjoyed this topped with cherry pie filling. The graham cracker crust has a slight nutty flavor, a wonderful mouth feel to the cheesecake itself, not overly tangy, every flavor comes thru! Thank you countrywife, we will enjoy this recipe again!
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Countrywife
Sacramento, Ca
I've been cooking for over 45 years now. First I made Jello pudding. Next I learned how to make cream sauce. I still like creamed tuna over toast, rice or mashed potatoes.
Many years ago I found a greeting card that said "When I retire I'm going to move to a big house in the country and live with a lot of cats...I've already got a start on the cats." I bought the store's entire stock and sent them to EVERYBODY! Well, now I'm retired, I live in a regular sized house in the country (on about 80 acres), I have a bunch of cats and feed a lot of other critters. There's a mini pig (she's still pretty big),a lop-eared rabbit, a vole who moved in under the stove, a huge flock of chickens, loads of songbirds, an opossum behind the barn(who sneaks in to eat), herons in the spring, pacific tree frogs, and the occasional coyote. We're even in the territory of a couple of golden eagles who stop by a couple of times a year.
That's a chicken on my shoulder. JC (Junior Chicken). How he ended up as an indoor chicken is a long, complicated story. JC never learned to crow right. Maybe it was being deprived of role models in his formative months.
