Mom's Cheese Cake

By rperlowitz

Ingredients

• Crust:
• 1 1/2 Cup Graham Cracker Crumbs
• 5 T Butter melted
• 1/4 Cup Sugar
• 1/2 to 1 cup walnuts chopped
• Cake:
• 2 1/2 8 oz packages Cream Cheese
• 1 Cup Sugar
• 5 Eggs - separated - beat whites stiff with cream of tartar
• 1 pint Sour Cream
• 1 t. Lemon Juice
• 1 t. Vanilla

Preparation

Step 1

*Crust*
Melt butter - add crumbs, nuts, and sugar - press into bottom of the spring form pan (pam the pan first)

*Cake*
Mix the cream cheese soft - gradually add the sugar and cream well
Add egg yolks one at a time add vanilla and lemon juice, pint of sour cream
fold in egg white (beat stiff in another bowl w/ cream of tarter)
Pour into spring form pan

_Cook_
start at 400 when put in cake turn down to 300 cook for 1 hour, turn off oven leave for another hour open door for another 1/2 hour.