Sue's New York Cheesecake

Tart crust Ingredients:

1 cup sifted flour
1 tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon grated lemon rind
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butter
1 egg yolk
2 tablespoons ice water

1. Sift flour and salt into a bowl, make a well in the center.

2. In the well, put the sugar, butter, lemon rind and egg yolk. Mix these ingredients to a paste and work in the flour. Add a little of the water if needed to make a dough.

3. Wrap in a damp cloth and chill for an hour. Roll out half the dough to fit the bottom of a spring form pan and bake for 10 minutes at 400. Cool and fit the remaining dough onto the sides of the pan, put together with the bottom.

Filling Ingredients:

2 & 1/2 pounds cream cheese (5-8 ounce packages)
1&1/2 cups sugar
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 cup heavy cream
2 tablespoons flour
1 teaspoon vanilla
5 whole eggs and 2 egg yolks

1. Have the cream cheese at room temperature and beat with mixer until smooth, add the sugar and beat together. Add the flour, salt and vanilla, add one egg at a time and beat together until smooth.

2. When well blended, add the heavy cream and beat in. Pour batter into the prepared spring form pan and bake at 475 for 10 minutes, then reduce the heat to 225 and bake another hour.

3. Then, shut the heat off and open the oven door and let the cake settle for 20 minutes in the open oven, remove the cake and cool completely. Chill for 4 hours before removing the sides of the spring form pan.