ARKANSAS CHEESECAKE
1 egg -- separated
1/2 cup skim milk
1 package gelatin powder
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon sugar
1 1/2 cups cottage cheese
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 teaspoon vanilla
6 tablespoons cool whip
2 medium graham crackers -- crushed
1 dash cinnamon
1 dash nutmeg
- liquify cottage cheese and cream in blender until VERY smooth
- Set aside.
- Put egg yolk in top of double boiler beat well and add milk.
- Add gelatin & salt.
- Cook over boiling water until gelatin dissolves and mixture thickens. (about 10 minutes)
- Remove from heat, add sugar
- Cool.
- Add cottage cheese, lemon juice and vanilla to cooled mixture.
- Chill, stirring occasionally, until mixture mounds when dropped from a spoon.
- Beat egg white until stiff.
- Fold egg white and cool-whip together into mixture.
- Pour into graham crust.
- Or pour into pie plate and top with crumb topping
Crumb Topping: crush 2 graham crackers fine. Mix with pinch of cinnamon and nutmeg.