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Cheesecake dreams

Cheesecake dreams

1/3 cup packed brown sugar

1 cup all-purpose flour

1/2 cup chopped walnuts (She uses pecans.)

1/3 cup melted butter or margarine

1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, softened

1/4 cup sugar

1 egg

1 tablespoon lemon juice

2 tablespoons milk

1 teaspoon vanilla

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease an 8-inch square pan. To make the crust: In a bowl, mix together the first 3 ingredients; then stir in butter until well combined. Reserve 1/3 cup of the crumbs; then pat remaining crumbs gently in the bottom of the pan. Then bake for 12 to 15 minutes.

Meanwhile, using an electric mixer at a medium speed, beat cream cheese and sugar together until smooth. Beat in remaining ingredients; then pour over baked crust. Sprinkle remaining crumbs over top. Bake for 25 more minutes, or until set. Cool on a wire rack. When cool, cut into 2-inch squares. Cut each 2-inch square diagonally in half for 32 servings. If you don't cut them diagonally, you get sixteen 2-inch square servings. (Note: She's been making this for at least 20 years.) Yield 16 - 32 servings.

—Debbie Keehner, from the 1961 Betty Crocker Picture Cookbook