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The recipe

Ok, bloggees, I have scored on your behalf, and here it is, the closely-guarded, secret unto this day, cheesecake recipe.

Ingredients:

The filling

1 lb curd cheese
1/4 lb cream cheese
5 oz caster sugar
3 eggs
4 oz Tomor/other hard margarine
1 1/2 oz cornflour

The base

8 digestive biscuits crushed finely
2oz Tomor/marg/butter
Melt marg and mix thoroughly with biscuit crumbs. Press down firmly into 8 1/2 ins. round by 4 ins. deep cake tin and put in the fridge to set while you prepare the mixture

Cream the fat and the sugar until you cannot feel the sugar between your fingers. Combine the curd and cream cheese into the creamed sugar mix.

Set aside, and now, whisk the 3 eggs in a separate bowl until they are thick and creamy.

Slowly, add the egg mixture to the cheese together with the cornflour and pour into the tin.

Bake on 190/ centigrade/6 gas for 10-12 minutes then turn down the heat to 180 centigrade/5 gas for 10-12 minutes.

Put into the fridge immediately to cool over night.

You can put any topping on such as chocolate or fruit. You can also put a third of the cheesecak mix into the base and then put tinned black cherries ( without juice) and cover with the rest of the mix.

Love Myrna

Cheesecake...

It's Shavuot tomorrow and Thursday, so just to let you know that I will, of course, be posting Myrna's cheese cake recipe on here, as soon as I get it. I'd post a photo of it too, but usually it's eaten too fast to get even a snapshot; some other time maybe. Anyow, it's divine.

I used to use the cheesecake recipe from Nora Ephron's Heartburn - fastest and easiest, but obviously not as good as Myrna's.

Chag Sameach!

Why is this drink different?

Complan is disgusting, as I said in the Guardian and absolutely no way to make people who are losing weight regain it. But Ensure Plus is a whole different story - it tastes good, goes down really easily, and not only is it kosher (except for the blackcurrant one) it is even kosher l'pesach. I have drunk loads of the stuff this Pesach, and so like every other year, I am - as Jews all over the world complain each year during Passover - putting on weight this Pesach.

Happy Pesach

From blog reader Sue in Hong Kong, chocolate spread on matzos, Japanese style.

Secret ingredients

A small chuckle for those who are immersed in Pesach-cleaning

Sugar rush - the craze for kosher Coke

Jenny Kleeman
Monday March 19, 2007
The Guardian

American Coca-Cola connoisseurs are celebrating the start of the most important season in their calendar. They say the perfect can of Coke is only available for a few weeks a year - and if you want the authentic taste of the Real Thing, you need to buy the Jewish Thing. Passover begins on April 2. For eight days, observant Jews keep kosher for Passover by not consuming any product containing grains, apart from matzo, the cracker eaten in place of bread. This poses a problem in the US, where cheap high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) has been used instead of sugar to sweeten American Coke since the drink's relaunch in 1985. Corn is a grain, so Coke isn't kosher.

Read the rest of it here

Chag Sameach

It is Purim today, and at lunchtime I'm chairing a panel of queen feminists at Jewish Book Week. So I am taking my greggor with me to keep order.

My son, the doctor

I went along on Elon's school outing today - a morning of Chanuka-related workshops, one of which, of course, was injecting jam into doughnuts.

So, this evening, Elon's telling his grandma Myrna about this best moment in his life so far, ever, and he's telling her about how you get the jam into the doughnut. I thought he might have picked up the word syringe, or more likely, he'd say that they used the thing you get an injection with.

But he didn't. He said, completely matter-of-factly, "you know, grandma, that thing they take blood from mummies with. Instead of having blood in it, you put jam in."

Every so often people ask me how much the children are having to deal with, how much they're absorbing of all this cancer stuff.

Job begun...

Tomorrow is a hospital Friday, but tomorrow night is the first of the eight nights of Chanuka. When I was little, I tell the shocked children every year, we never, ever got Chanuka presents - maybe a chocolate coin. They find this very amusing. And so, if you peer closely at the photo, you will see yet another excellent use for the Guardian give-away posters: "herbs" this one was called I believe.