{"id":7424,"slug":"cheese-cake-or-pie","title":"CHEESE CAKE OR PIE","description":"From The International Jewish Cook Book by Florence Kreisler Greenbaum.","ingredients_raw":["one and one-half cups of cheese","a piece of sweet butter the size of an egg","one-half cup of sugar","yolks of three eggs","a pinch of salt","peel of a lemon","one-half cup of cleaned currants","a little citron cut up very fine","kuchen dough or pie dough","butter (for buttering pie-plates)","whites of the eggs"],"ingredients_norm":["and half cups of cheese","sweet butter the size of egg","sugar","egg yolk","salt","peel of lemon","cleaned currant","little citron cut up very fine","kuchen dough or pie dough","butter","whites of the egg"],"steps":["Take one and one-half cups of cheese, rub smooth with a silver or wooden spoon through a colander or sieve.","Rub a piece of sweet butter the size of an egg to a cream, add gradually one-half cup of sugar and the yolks of three eggs, a pinch of salt, grate in the peel of a lemon, one-half cup of cleaned currants and a little citron cut up very fine.","Line two pie-plates with some kuchen dough or pie dough (See \"Coffee Cakes (Kuchen)\"), roll it out quite thin, butter the pie-plates quite heavily, and let the dough in them rise at least a quarter of an hour.","Just before you put the cheese into the plates, whip up the whites of the eggs to a very stiff froth and stir through the cheese mixture.","Put the cheese mixture into the plates and bake immediately."],"categories":[],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":null,"servings":null,"yield_text":null,"difficulty":null,"source_name":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12350","source_ref":"pg:12350:w65:8","authors_url":null,"license":"Public domain (US)","license_url":null,"extraction_confidence":0.85,"content_hash":"b8942a70a3d92ce3a409829778232bf9ea69f48481cf83ecde5b0a4e695fa4de","created_at":"2026-08-02T17:02:13Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T17:11:32Z","notice":"Historical recipe, reproduced as published: it may reflect its era's ingredients, language, and food-safety practices. Apply modern judgment on cooking temperatures and preservation.","url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/cheese-cake-or-pie"}