new yawk cheesecake

Won’t be able to say how good this is until tomorrow, but it looks rather yummy so far. It’s a variation on a couple of different recipes found online and in my cookbook collection.

[edit: couldn’t resist and had a slice already. It was a little soft in the middle and could have done with the full overnight refrigeration, but otherwise really rather gorgeous. Light and fluffy and very, very rich.]

All ingredients should be room temperature before starting.

Small Packet Digestive biscuits, crushed (250g)
60ml (4 tbsp) melted butter
3 x 300g packages cream cheese
375g (1 1/2 cups) sugar
145ml (1/2 cup) double cream
4 eggs
280ml (1 cup) sour cream
15ml (1 tbsp) vanilla
30g (1/4 cup) flour
30g (1/4 cup) icing sugar (or less, to taste - this might have been a bit too sweet)

Preheat oven to 175C and grease a 20cm springform pan. Mix the crushed biscuits with the melted butter and press into the bottom of the pan and slightly up the sides. Put in the refrigerator while the other ingredients are being mixed.

Separate the egg yolks from the whites and beat the whites until stiff. Mix the cream cheese and sugar until smooth, then stir in the cream. Add the eggs, half of the sour cream, vanilla and flour and mix until smooth. Fold in the egg whites, mixing in completely, but not beating too much.

Pour into the crust and bake in the middle of the oven for one hour. Don’t open the door before the hour is up. After an hour it should still wobble slightly in the middle but it will set as it cools. Turn the oven off and leave the cheesecake inside for an hour. Run a knife between the cake and the pan and leave on a wire rack to cool completely.

Mix the remaining sour cream with icing sugar and spread over the top of the cheesecake. Refridgerate for 4 to 6 hours or overnight.

defiance?

Gordon Bennet - what silliness! Don’t these hunt people have anything else to do with their pathetic lives? They’re so defiant aren’t they? Hunting within the law - gosh, that will show ‘em, hey?

Just deal with it - it’s obvious that the ban isn’t stopping them from having their fun, so making comparisons to Nazi Germany* or going around quoting Churchill simply becomes insulting to people with real lives or who gave theirs for a proper cause, rather than for the right to harrass wild animals, ffs.

(*Huntspeople heard on Countryfile comparing the government to Nazis - I’m sure Ken Livingstone can relate - and quoting Churchill at their rallies.)

the end

...is nigh for most of the planet’s large mammals. All the ones you can think of off the top of your head are either highly endangered or days away from extinction. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4270845.stm

mind the la-la-language

Old news, I’m sure, but for people who haven’t heard the brilliant London Underground song, here’s the good doctors’ song set to a Flash Video by Tim Ireland at Bloggerheads.

(warning: lots of naughty words)

poo power

And why not, I ask?

lovely, lovely birds

Ooh, birds are really, really clever and have an eye for art. It doesn’t suprise me, to be honest, but it does make me wonder what they’re saying about us behind our backs.

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