Recipes for Cooking with Cheese

Savoury Stilton Cheesecake

Makes or Serves: 8

Ingredients:

• 175g (6oz) digestive biscuits‚ crushed
• 75g (3oz) butter‚ melted
• pinch of salt
• 225g (8oz) blue stilton‚ grated
• 225g (8oz) curd cheese‚ or cottage cheese‚ sieved
• Half small onion‚ grated
• 2 sticks celery‚ finely chopped
• 25g (1oz) shelled walnuts or peanuts‚ chopped
• 12.5g (half ounce) gelatine
• 60ml (4 tablespoons) water
• 2.5ml (half teaspoon) each of black pepper and paprika pepper
• Rings or red pepper‚ celery leaves and half walnuts to garnish

Method:

Mix the digestive biscuits‚ butter and salt together and press on to the base of a 20cm (8 inches) spring release cake tin.

Chill.

Mix together the cheeses until smooth‚ then beat in the onion‚ celery and nuts.

Dissolve the gelatine in water over a very gentle heat‚ then stir into the cheese mixture with the seasonings.

Spoon over the biscut crust and level the surface.  Chill for up to 4 hours until set‚ then carefuly remove from the tin.

Garnish and serve with salad or use as a cheese course.