2 1/4 c Flour
1 pn Salt
1/2 c Butter or Margarine; cut
-into small pieces, plus
1 tb Butter or Margarine; cut
-into small pieces
4 tb Sugar
1 Egg
3 tb Water
FILLING
1 1/2 lb Quark
3/4 c Sugar
4 Eggs; separated
3 dr Vanilla
1 pn Salt
1 Lemon; grated peel of
1 tb Lemon Juice
1/4 c Cornstarch
1/2 c Milk
Sift flour and salt into a large bowl; cut in butter until mixture
resembles bread crumbs. Using a fork, mix in sugar, egg, and enough
water to make a dough. Press into a ball, wrap in plastic wrap and
refrigerate 2 hours.
Preheat oven to 350oF. On a floured board, roll out dough to fit a 10″
springform or flan pan with removable bottom. Place dough in tin,
pushing up slightly around edges.
For the filling beat quark, sugar, egg yolks, vanilla, salt, lemon
peel and juice in a large bowl; beat in cornstarch and milk until
smooth. Beat egg whites until stiff and fold into cheese mixture.
Pour into pastry shell and bake 1 hour to 70 minutes, until a
toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Turn off oven and let
cake cool in oven with door ajar. Remove cooled cake from tin and
serve. Refrigerate leftovers.
Per Serving: 322 calories, 13 g protein, 40 g carbohydrate, 13 g fat,
7 g saturated fat, 117 mg cholesterol, 173 mg sodium, 1 g fiber.
Yields
12 servings