Home Economics (Food) Curriculum Overview – KS3

Ingredients:

175g Ginger Biscuits
60g Butter
200g Cream Cheese
¼ pint Double Cream
1 Lemon
1 level Tbl.Sp. Caster Sugar

Decoration: You can decorate this cheesecake with slices of fresh fruit, e.g. kiwi, black grapes, strawberries, mandarin oranges, apricots.

Method:

Crush biscuits. Image: Cheesecake
Melt butter in saucepan, add biscuit crumbs and stir well. Image: Cheesecake
Press into greased flan tin. Image: Cheesecake
Grate lemon rind, squeeze juice. Put cream cheese into bowl, beat in the cream, sugar, lemon rind and juice. When smooth, pour over biscuit base. Image: Cheesecake
Chill in fridge. Decorate. Image: Cheesecake

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Image: Box Grater

 

When zesting a lemon using the fine side of a box grater you can end up with quite a bit of lemon rind remaining on the grater and ending up in the washing up.  Avoid this by wrapping your grater in a double layer of cling film.  The zest will pass through.  When you have finished grating the cling film can be easily removed.  No wasted zest and quicker washing up!