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• Elaine’s new york cheesecake

This recipe comes from my grandma Elaine. She's turning 90 this July, and we're all going out to New York to celebrate. Will there be cheesecake? I sure hope so, and knowing Grams, there will be no shortage of sweets. To call these recipe cards well-loved would be an understatement. The neat pencil script is smudged from years of use and the paper is covered in splashes and splotches of vanilla extract. My mom made this cheesecake, 4 of them to be precise, every morning before her shift at the deli in the 70's. With a hand-mixer, no less. She even told me that after she left her job at the deli (refusing to sell the 'secret' recipe to the owners), one of her regular customers begged her to share the recipe with him. He was so adamant about getting the recipe for his favorite cheesecake, that he snuck in when she wasn't looking and copied it. The nerve! Luckily she didn't hold a grudge as he was our family's dentist for many years (dentists like sweets too, apparently). Grandma's index

Oct. 1, 2021, 11:26 a.m.

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