This Is So Cheesy

Here's an easy, different recipe for cheesecake
that parents and children can make together:

Crust

1/8 pound butter; melted
1 cup cookie crumbs

Filling

1 1 /2 pounds cream cheese
1 cup sugar
I tsp. vanilla
4 eggs

Topping

1 pint sour cream
2 Tbsp. sugar
1 /2 tsp. vanilla

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Make crust by combining
melted butter and crumbs.

Press into bottom and on
sides of spring-
form cake pan.
Combine
cheese, sugar and
vanilla. Add eggs, one
at a time, beating un-
til well mixed. Turn
into crumb-
lined pan.
Bake for 35-
45 min-
utes, until
center is
firm.
Turn heat off,
but keep cake in oven until it
has cooled.
When cake has cooled, add
sour cream mixed with sugar

There's No
Stopping
These
Toppings

You can have a lot of fun deciding
what to put on top of your cheese-
cake.
Here are some ideas:

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we really get spring
anymore?) winds
down and summer be-
gins, Judaism treats us to a celebra-
tion, the holiday of Shavuot.
On English-language calendars,
the holiday often is called the
"Feast of Weeks," a good descrip-
tion of a really long party, but don't
bring out the pointy, polka-dot hats
and the painfully loud noisemakers
this time. In Hebrew, shavuot does
indeed mean "weeks," but it refers
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year, Shavuot probably is the most
neglected and least understood.
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Shavuot includes an agricultural a
element. Today, however, we I
observe Shavuot as the anniver-
sary of Moshe's ascent up
Mount Sinai and God's giving the
Torah to the Jewish people.
In our prayers, we refer to
Shavuot as zman matan
Torateinu, "the time of the giv-
ing of our Torah."
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val always comes out seven weeks
after the second day of Pesach
(Passover). Sometimes, the
holiday also is called Pen-
tecost, from the Greek for
"50th day," because
Shavuot is the 50th day after
Pesach. On the Jewish calen-
dar, the 50th day falls on the
6th of Sivan, which this year
corresponds to June 11.
Outside of Israel, the holi-
day is celebrated for two
days.
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