Arkansas Cheesecake

Ingredients

• 1 egg, separated
• ½ cup skim milk (or less)
• 1 pack gelatin (envelope)
• ⅛ tsp salt
• 1 tbsp Equal (nutrasweet)
• 1½ cup cottage cheese (lumpy stuff)
• 1 tbsp lemon juice
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 6 tbsp lite Cool Whip (frozen non-dairy topping like whipped cream)
• ready-made graham cracker crust (optional)

Crumb topping

• 2 graham crackers
• pinch of cinnamon and nutmeg

Directions

1. Take cottage cheese and cream in blender until very smooth.
2. Set aside.
3. Put egg yolk in top of double boiler beat well and add milk.
4. Add gelatin and salt.
5. Cook over boiling water until gelatin dissolves and mixture thickens (about 10 minutes)
6. Remove from heat, add sugar substitute.
7. Cool.
8. Add cottage cheese, lemon juice and vanilla to cooled mixture.
9. Chill, stirring occasionally, until mixture mounds when dropped from a spoon.
10. Beat egg white until stiff.
11. Fold egg white and Cool Whip together into mixture.
12. Pour into graham crust or pour into pie plate and top with crumb topping.

Crumb topping

1. Crush graham crackers fine.
2. Mix with pinch of cinnamon and nutmeg.

Nutritional Information

without topping or crust:

• Calories 442 (whole pie!)

with Keebler graham crust:

• Calories 1402 (per serving: 175 | 7g fat)