On Tue 27 May 2008 11:40:40a, Margaret Suran told us...

> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>
>>>>
>>> It sounds like the typical Italian Cheesecake. It's one I do not like,
>>> so I have never tried to duplicate it. As far as I am concerned, it
has
>>> to be nice and creamy.
>>
>> I have made some ricotta cheesecakes and they were close to what I
>> remember, but not quite the same. Unfortunately for my waistline, I
like
>> *all* types of cheesecake, except the "unbaked" versions which I don't
>> really consider cheesecake.
>>
>
> Wayne, what you really want, you will not get. Unfortunately.
>
> You would like your Mother to come and bake just one more cheesecake for
> you. You want to ask her for the recipe and ask her about a thousand
> questions. I suppose that you miss your Mother.
>
> Just as I miss mine. Every day something happens that makes me think of
> her. She was a bad cook, but over and over I will think: "This is not
> the way Mutti made it, how I wish I had asked her for her recipe, it was
> so much better than what I am making".
>

Margaret, I agree with you on every level of what you said. I am
fortunate, though, that I have all of my mother's recipes, even most that
she only had in her head, as I would discuss them with her and write them
down as she described making them.

As to the cheesecake, my mother never baked a cheesecake. Perhaps my
statement was misleading. This was a cheesecake that my mother would
always order at a certain restaurant when I was quite young. The
restaurant no longer exists. :-(

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Wayne Boatwright
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