BAKED CHEESE CAKE with cottage cheese

This tasty, baked cheese cake is not rich and can be eaten for breakfast, served as a dessert after lunch or dinner, or for morning coffee.

Makes 6-8 serves

2 cups cottage cheese
2/3 cup caster sugar
3 eggs, separated
1 cup flour
1 tsp BP
1 tsp lemon rind
1/3 cup seedless raisins
1/4 cup chopped almonds
2 Tab icing sugar

Place cheese, sugar, egg yolks, flour & BP in a bowl and beat together thoroughly.
Stir in lemon rind, raisins & almonds and mix well.

In a bowl beat egg-whites until stiff, then fold into cheese mixture.

Spoon into a greased, 20cm cake pan. Bake at 180 degrees C for 40-50 mins or until set. Leave in pan for 10 mins, then turn out onto a wire rack. Dust top lightly with icing sugar.

EASY APPLE COCONUT CRUMBLE

serves 4

500g lightly stewed apples
100g caster sugar
200g plain flour
100g butter
30g dess. coconut

Put the apples in greased pie dish.
Put sugar & flour in a bowl, rub in butter until crumbly and mix thoroughly with the coconut.
Pile on top of apples, smooth the top and place in mod-low oven 160 degree C for about 40 mins.
Serve hot with cream or custard.