Grandmother's Cheesecake Recipe

Recipe courtesy of Zarabel

Ingredients:

Crust:

2 cups finely ground graham crackers or vanilla wafers

1/3 cup margarine to grease the spring form pan.

1/3 Cup Sugar

1/8 Tsp Salt

Mix together thoroughly and press in, and up sides of 8” springform pan. Bake 8-10 minutes in 350 ° oven. Let cool well.

Filling:

1 ½ lb Cream Cheese (3-8oz. pkgs.)

6 eggs

1 cup sugar

1 tsp. vanilla

1 Tsp Lemon Juice

1 ½ pints sour cream

Mix eggs and sugar together. Add cream cheese, vanilla and lemon juice. Beat well.

Fold in sour cream. Pour mixture into spring pan.

Bake at 350° for 1 hour. (DO NOT OPEN OVEN DOOR)

After an hour turn oven off, and keep door closed for an hour longer.

Open door and leave cake in oven for one more hour.

Let cake cool completely on rack before taking outer ring off.