Click for large size picture


Recipes
with berries


American
recipes


Recipe from
New York State

 
 

Gooseberry dumplings

 

New York cheesecake

 
  • 200 GRAM BISCUITS
  • 75 GRAM BUTTER, melted
  • 600 GRAM CREAM CHEESE
  • 175 GRAM SUGAR
  • 5 EGGS
  • 1 CUP SOUR CREAM
  • 1 TSP VANILLA SUGAR
  • 3 TBSP LEMON JUICE
  • CACAO POWDER

Roll out the pastry and cut 4 squares. Put the gooseberries together with one tablespoon of water and the sugar, and cook on middle high heat while stirring for 10 minutes. Dissolve the custard in one tablespoon of water and add this to the gooseberries. Heat two minutes more. Allow the gooseberry mixture to cool down and distribute it over the pastry squares. Close the diagonally and glue the edges with a little water. Bake the dumplings 20 minutes at 200 degrees Celsius.

Grind the cookies with the melted butter in a food processor and press this mixture on the bottom of a round cake tin. Mix the cream cheese with 125 gram sugar, the eggs, the lemon juice and the vanilla sugar and pour this on the biscuit bottom. Fill a baking tray with a layer of hot water and put the cake tin in the middle; bake the cheesecake one hour at 180 degrees Celsius. Mix the sour cream with the remaining sugar and pour this on top of the cake. Bake 10 minutes more. Put the cheesecake in the fridge at least 4 hours and dust it with cacao powder before serving.

Bake this cake for instance ont on the 3rd of January, the day that the construction of Brooklyn Bridge was started in 1870. Click on culinary calendar for more links between cooking and celebration.