Old Style Cheesecake Mix

taffy1969

Hi, my mum is trying to find a recipe for a cheesecake mix she used to buy. The packet was called cheesecake mix but it's not cheesecake as we know it. It's more like an almond tart without the almonds!!!!! She bought the 'sponge/cheesecake' mix and made this up and put it on top of a pastry base with jam on. It was made by a company beginning In..... she thinks!!!

Any ideas out there? I'm sure one of you lovely ladies will know what I'm talking about. it was very nice especially with custard!!!

Thanks in advance

billieboy_2

I remember a Green's Cheesecake from the 70s (showing my age!) but that was a kind of lemon cheesecake.

taffy1969

Hi billieboy thanks for your reply but it def wasn't lemon. I'm thinking it was like the almond tart as i said and a bit like a frangipang cake.

Really hope someone comes on who knows what I'm talking about, mum is driving me nuts for the recipe!!!!!

bushie_2

billieboy wrote: »

I remember a Green's Cheesecake from the 70s (showing my age!) but that was a kind of lemon cheesecake.

You can still get these - my corner shop sells them and they always have a coupon for money off next time.

billieboy_2

If she's looking for a recipe for it could she make a frangipane tart? Lots of recipes on the internet. She could buy a ready made pastry case. HTH.

psso

Maybe it`s something like this one. My Mum used to make them when I was small and I still do them. Original recipe was in the cookbook I used at school many moons ago. No cheese anywhere near them.


Cheese cakes

Short crust or rough puff pastry rolled out quite thinly.
2oz margarine
2oz caster sugar
2oz flour
¼ tsp baking powder
1 egg
Jam

Line patty tin with pastry and put a small blob of jam in the bottom.
Cream the marg and sugar then add flour and egg alternately then mix in baking powder.
Put a teaspoonful of the mix in each tin, covering the jam.
Make a cross on top with scraps of pastry.
Bake in a hot oven for 15 – 20 minutes.

As well as doing indvidual ones, you can do it in a sandwich type tin for pudding.

taffy1969

Thanks billieboy and bushie for your replys.

PSSO - I think that's it!!! I got very excited when you said about the patty tin (how sad am I) and you are right, no cheese in sight. It used to really annoy me when I lived at home that my mum called it cheesecake!!!!!
Thank you so much and I will let you know how she gets on, may even make my own.:beer:

tartantotty

taffy1969 wrote: »

Thanks billieboy and bushie for your replys.

PSSO - I think that's it!!! I got very excited when you said about the patty tin (how sad am I) and you are right, no cheese in sight. It used to really annoy me when I lived at home that my mum called it cheesecake!!!!!
Thank you so much and I will let you know how she gets on, may even make my own.:beer:

I live in the NE of Scotland, and there are few bakers in the area that sell cheesecakes, and they are as you described! I did get a shock the first time I had one, but they are lovely!!!:T

psso

tartantotty wrote: »

I live in the NE of Scotland, and there are few bakers in the area that sell cheesecakes, and they are as you described! I did get a shock the first time I had one, but they are lovely!!!:T

Snap , I live there too and some of the bakers ones are fine but some are soooo dry, definitely better home made, you can put more jam in .