Recipe Talk

My mom made this in 1962 with her mom. She started making it in school back in Sweet Home Oregon. My grandma died and we lost the recipe. It had gelatin, cottage cheese, liquid whipping cream, lemon, eggs, pineapple, vanilla, cream cheese. I dont even know where to start to look for this. Can you please help.

No idea if this is anywhere close to what you are looking for. Was it a true cheesecake or more like a pie? This is classed as a pie but it does have the same ingredients.

Pineapple Cheesecake

Graham cracker crust:

12-14 regular graham crackers
3 Tbsp. Butter
1/4 cup sugar

Crush graham crackers to fine crumbs. Combine with 3 Tbsp. butter and 1/4 cup sugar until fine crumbs cling together. Press into 9" deep dish glass pie plate. Chill while mixing the pie.

Cheesecake:

1/2 cup cold water
2 Tbsp. (2 envelopes unfavored gelatin)
2 eggs, separated
1/2 cup milk
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup sugar
1 tsp. lemon zest (about one lemon)
1 Tbsp. lemon juice
1 lb. small curd cottage cheese
1 tsp. vanilla extract
2 cups heavy whipping cream
1 can (20 oz.) crushed, well-drained pineapple

Put cold water in a large bowl and sprinkle gelatin over it. Let soften until ready to use.

In a double boiler, beat egg yolks. Add milk, salt, sugar, lemon juice and lemon zest, stirring to combine, and cook slowly over simmering water until consistence of a thick custard. Add to gelatin mixture and stir until dissolved.

Press cottage cheese through a ricer or a colander into the custard mixture. Add vanilla extract, stir well and let set in refrigerator until thickened, about 30 min.

When thickened, remove from refrigerator and beat until fairly smooth.

Beat egg whites in one bowl until stiff. Then beat whipping cream in another bowl until just stiff. Then fold each into the cottage cheese custard mixture. Fold in pineapple and pour into prepared crust, smoothing custard to fill crust evenly. Refrigerate until ready to serve.

Eriki,
That recipe was so close but its missing cream cheese. I just wanted to say thank you so much for responding to my post. Thank you for your time. I hope you see this message.

Angiescookn

Just an idea...you could try adding 8 oz. of cream cheese to the cottage cheese and see if it comes out close to the one you want. If you do that I would suggestyou use a 10-inch pie plate though.

If you do try it and it works, let me know!