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.

APPLE SPONGE

Lovely and light – worth trying again

4 apples
1/2 cup sugar
4 Tab water
1 tsp grated lemon rind
few whole cloves

SPONGE TOPPING:
2 oz butter or substitute
1/4 cup castor sugar
1 egg
1 cup SR
pinch salt
1/3 cup milk
1 Tab extra sugar

Peel, core & slice apples. Combine in saucepan with sugar, water, rind & cloves. Cover & cook gently until apples are tender. Put in greased oven-proof dish, remove cloves.

SPONGE: Cream butter & sugar, add egg & beat well. Sift flour & salt, add alternately with milk and mix well.

Spoon over hot apples, sprinkle with extra sugar. Bake in mod oven 30-35 min. Serve warm with custard or cream.