Ma’s Cheesecake

Filling

5 eggs, separated
1 cup sugar
1 lb. Cream cheese (room temp)
1 cup sour cream
2 tbsp. flour
1 tsp. vanilla

Glaze: 1 can cherry or blueberry pie filling or fresh fruit

Heat oven to 275 degrees. Butter a 9” spring-form pan.
Dust bottom and sides with:
½ cup fine graham cracker crumbs
1 tbsp. sugar
¼ tsp. each cinnamon and nutmeg

Beat egg yolks until thick and lemon-colored. Gradually beat in sugar. Break up cream cheese; add to egg mixture beating until smooth. Add sour cream, flour, and vanilla; continue beating until smooth. Beat egg whites until stiff but not dry. Gently fold into cheese mixture.

Pour filling into prepared pan. Bake 70 minutes. Then turn off oven and leave in 1 hour without opening oven door. Remove from oven and cool. Refrigerate overnight or all day, then spread top with glaze.