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It’s been a really long time since I shared one of my homemade and home-tested recipes with you guys but I decided, in honor of National Cheesecake day, to share  my husband's grandmother’s recipe.

Here's the original copy as I took it down from her:

It is the most amazingly delicious Italian Cheesecake and I hope you all will give it a try. 

Let me add 2 disclaimers right up front:

1. Great things take time…this is a recipe you should devote the entire day to.
2. Your house has to be quiet during the baking or the cake can fall.

So, if you can make a commitment to those two conditions, you will adore the end result.

ANTONELLA’S ITALIAN CHEESECAKE

1 lb. cream cheese

1 ½ lbs. ricotta cheese (3 cups)

2 cups sugar

6 eggs

6 tablespoons flour

1 tablespoon lemon juice

1 tablespoon vanilla

1 pint sour cream

Beat first and second ingredients until creamy.

Add sugar and cream well.

Add eggs 1 at a time – beat after each one.

Add flour, lemon juice and vanilla – beat.

Add sour cream – beat.

Grease and flour a 9” or 10” spring form pan.

Bake at 350 degrees 1 hour.

Shut off oven and let sit in oven for 1 hour.

Remove and let cool for 1 hour.

Then put in refrigerator for 4 to 6 hours before cutting and serving.

That’s it! Garnish with fruit, powedered sugar or whipped cream or whatever but this is one I like plain.  I hope you and your family love it as much as we do!

Happy National Cheesecake Day! 

XO,

A

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