Mary's kaeskuch (cheese kuchen)
8 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | cup | Flour |
| 1 | teaspoon | Baking powder |
| 1½ | teaspoon | Sugar |
| ¼ | teaspoon | Salt |
| ¼ | cup | Butter -- cut up |
| ⅓ | cup | Milk |
| 2 | Eggs | |
| 1½ | cup | Cream-style cottage cheese |
| ⅓ | cup | Sugar |
| ⅓ | cup | Half-and-half, light cream |
| Or evaporated milk | ||
| 1 | tablespoon | Flour |
| ½ | teaspoon | Vanilla |
| ¼ | teaspoon | Ground cinnamon |
| ⅛ | teaspoon | Salt |
Directions
For Crust: In a large bowl, stir together 1 cup flour, baking powder, 1½ tsp. sugar and ¼ tsp. salt. Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Make a well in the center: add milk all at once. Stir just until dough clings together. One a lightly flur surface, roll dough into an 11" circle. Fit into bottom and up sides of an ungreased 9x1 ½" round baking pan. Trim crust even with top edge of pan. Bake the crust at 350=B0 oven for 5 minutes. Set aside.
For filling: In a large bowl, beat eggs. Stir in cottage cheese, ⅓ cup sugar, half and half, 1 Tbsp. flour, vanilla, cinnamon and ⅛ tsp. salt until combined. Pour filling into crust. Bake in a 350=B0 oven for 30 minutes or until center is nearly set when= shaken. Cool the dessert on a wire rack for 1 hour. Cover and chill for at least 4 hours.
~ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NOTES : Mary Thrill of Fredonia, Wisconsin says this is a longtime favorite Luxembourgish dessert. Serve with coffee for a wonderful midmorning break.=
MC formatting by bobbi744@... Recipe By : Midwest Living magazine, June '95