Title: Rose Geranium Cheesecake
Categories: Cheesecake Dessert
Yield: 1 Cheesecake

8	oz	Vanilla wafer cookies
3	oz	Butter
8	oz	Cottage cheese
8	oz	Cream cheese
		Juice and rind of 1/2 lemon
8	md	Rose geranium leaves, chopped
3/4	oz	Powdered gelatin
2	tb	Water, hot
1		Egg
1/4	pt	Thick yogurt
3		Dessert spoons granulated sugar, fine

Put the cookies in a plastic bag and crush them with a rolling pin. Melt the butter in a saucepan, add the crushed cookies and stir until all the cookie crumbs are coated in butter. Place in the bottom of an 8" springform pan. Pass the cottage cheese thru a sieve, then beat the cream cheese and cottage cheese together with the lemon juice adn rind, egg yolk and yogurt. Add the chopped geranium leaves. Dissovle the gelatin in the water, fold into the mixture adn pour over the base. Chill until set.

*Variation: As an alternative, try flavoring with elderberry juice. Stew 2 heads of berries in 3 T. of water and sugar to taste. Use half the liquid in the cheesecake mixture and set the rest with 1 t. of gelatin to pour over the cheesecake as a topping.

Source: The New Age Herbalist by Richard Mabey

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