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      Title: Pumpkin Cheesecake
 Categories: Desserts, Cheesecake, Sthrn/livng
      Yield: 10 servings
 
    1/3 c  Butter (or marg.); softened
    1/3 c  Sugar
      1    Egg
  1 1/4 c  Flour, all-purpose
     16 oz Cream cheese; softened
    3/4 c  Sugar
      2 c  Pumpkin; cooked, mashed
      1 ts Cinnamon, ground
    1/4 ts Ginger, ground
    1/4 ts Nutmeg, ground
        ds Salt
      2    Eggs
           Cream; whipped
 
  Cream butter and 1/3 cup sugar until light and fluffy; blend in egg.
  Add flour, mixing well.  Spread dough on bottom and 2 inches up sides
  of a 9" springform pan.  Bake at 400 degrees for 5 minutes.  Remove
  form oven; lower oven temperature to 350 degrees.
  
  Combine cream cheese and 3/4 cup sugar; beat at medium speed of
  electric mixer until smooth.  Blend in pumpkin, spices, and salt. Add
  eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.  Pour into
  baked crust. Bake at 350 degrees for 50 minutes.
  
  Loosen cake from sides of pan; cool.  Remove rim of pan; chill.
  Garnish with whipped cream.
  
  SOURCE: Southern Living Magazine, sometime in the 1970s. Typos by
  Nancy Coleman
 
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