ABPA - Australian Bush Poets Association

This is for Wazza. This is an old poem and I'd probably cringe if I read it. We had a bit of fun with recipes at one time a while back on the old forum. It's not easy to do a recipe as you have to keep to the recipe and can't use poetic license.

Luscious Lemon Cheesecake
That this recipe is easy, take my word, it’s no mistake;
It’s a cheesecake made with lemon jelly, with no need to bake.
Here’s the list of the ingredients that you will find you need;
I suggest you have them ready to allow some extra speed.

Base made of 1 pkt Marie biscuits and butter
2 lemon jellies
¾ cup boiling water
1 tin evaporated milk
250g philly cheese
¾ cup castor sugar
Juice 2 lemons

First of all you make a lemon jelly; make a double lot;
Don’t forget to add the water, making sure it’s boiling hot.
Wait until you can’t see jelly crystals; that’s the common rule.
Stir it up, dissolve the jelly, set aside and let it cool.

Take a bowl and beat two hundred fifty grams of philly cheese;
Beat it up real good and proper - nice and creamy if you please.
Add three quarters cup of sugar, stir it in and make it soft;
Add the juice of two nice lemons; mmmm the scent begins to waft.


Take one tin evaporated milk and whip it ‘till it’s beat;
Not long now. Before you know it you will eat this lovely treat.
Add the beaten milk to your cream mix and beat it once again.
Yes, I know, I know the beating is becoming quite a pain!

Now it’s time to add the jelly mix; you beat ‘til soft and creamy;
Though it seems a lot of work, the end result is something dreamy!
Here’s the bit I love the best - it’s when you get to lick the spoon;
Though you need to do it quick - before the kids come in the room!

Pour the creamy mix on to the biscuit base you made today,
From a pack of biscuits and a bit of butter; easy, eh?
Put the cake inside the fridge; allow the cold to do the rest;
Pretty soon it will be set and you can put it to the test.

It has been a long kept secret, but to you I will divulge
Luscious lemon cheesecake. Now partake, oh... OH... INDULGE!

©Heather Knight 5 May 2010

Mmmn Mmmn - I LOVE cheese cake Heather. Not so much the baked variety but like yours, out of the fridge and onto a plate and pass me the knife 'cause I really can't wait.
I have printed your poem and ingredients list and will sift through the verses for the method. My taste buds are swimming in saliva (that sounds gross doesn't it) in anticipation.
Wazza

It's a really yummy cheesecake Warren. One of my daughters used to ask for it as her birthday cake

You've won me Heather
I also love cheesecakes like yours, but like Wazza I'll give the baked variety a miss.

Terry

You might find Heather, that what you did back then has a sort of freedom in rhythm that tends to stiffen up when you start trying to keep to "rules' that you have learnt. That's how some of my old ones look to me now.