Sarah Mace's Springform Cheese Cake (NY Lindy type)

3 pounds cream cheese
2 cups sugar
1/2 cup flour
1 tsp vanilla
juice of 1 lemon
2 egg yolks
5 whole eggs
1 cup whipping cream

Crust: 1/2 cup soft butter
1/4 cup sugar
1 egg yolk
1 cup flour

Mix crust ingredients. Put 1/3 of mixture in bottom of spring form pan and bake 10 minutes at 350 degrees.

Mix cream cheese filling ingredients. Put remainder of crust mixture on sides of pan. Pour in cream cheese mixture. Bake at about 450 degrees for 12 minutes (varies). Then 250 degrees, or 275 degrees, for 1 hour, 10 minutes.

Turn off oven and let cool with door open for about 3 hours.

Refrigerate about 8 hours before cutting. Top with canned pie filling . . . cherry, blueberry, etc.