Thread: Cheesecake question

digestive biscuit, smothered in creamy cottage cheese, covered with a big dollop of strawberry jam.

Stuff in gob

Chew

Very very SLOWLY

yum yum

Only with a McVities digestive biscuit, and I can't find them here either

One doesn't nessecarily need sour cream to create a decent cheesecake. For everyone that makes cheesecake, there's a different cheese cake. One could easily substitute non-desript soft cheeses for the purpose. Or you could easily just go the singular cream cheese route.

Friendship supermarket in Pattaya sells sourcream..... where are you ??

I've also added manao juice to unsweetened yoghurt to get a pseudo-sour cream, but OK with cream, too. I have a good recipe from my Québécoisuncle...let me check...

Thank's for the advice everyone, I'll get cracking in the next couple of day's and let you know how I get on.
Fondles; I'm in BKK

Originally Posted by jaiyenyen

I fancy making a cheesecake, but the recipes all seem to want sour cream. I took a trip to Lotus and Big C, and all they seem to have is whipping cream. Where can I buy sour cream, or can I make my own.
Also, does anyone have a good cheesecake recipe?

Not sure where your located but Foodland and Carrefour (both on Srinakarin) have sour cream. Look next to the cottage cheese.

E. G.

Damn shitty sour cream they have here, about like everything else.

^ It's that Foremost stuff. What do you expect?

Originally Posted by blackgang

Damn shitty sour cream they have here, about like everything else.

Considering it's not a 'dairy' consuming society. Smarts folks.

The sour cream is close enough... works on taters and as a salad dressing form me.

E. G.

Tesco/Big C should have sour cream near the yoghurt (in a yoghurt-sized container).

In Bangkok and Pattaya sour cream is available at Foodland, Villa and, depending upon the branch and the number of farang customers it has, Big C, Lotus and Carrefour. I use a lot of the stuff.

They have it at Makro in Roiet so reckon Makro in Bangkok is bound to have it.

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

^ It's that Foremost stuff. What do you expect?

There is another brand, can't remember the name, with brown writing on the container. It's much better than Foremost. I object to the container more than
the stuff itself, no way to reseal the container once its opened. Packaging here is
one of my big gripes.

Don't use sour cream. Try this recipe, absolutely wonderful:

Jamie Oliver's NYC cheesecake recipe | Recipes - Times Online

Originally Posted by PAG

Don't use sour cream. Try this recipe, absolutely wonderful:

Yes, that is one of the best,,But buy the Graham Cracker crust already made in some shops here and in all in the states.

My wife made me a cheesecake the other day. She'd used some sort of actual cheese biscuts to make the base.

My wife makes a triple chocolate cheesecake and uses Oreo cookies for the base- it's pretty awesome.

Originally Posted by blackgang

Originally Posted by PAG

Don't use sour cream. Try this recipe, absolutely wonderful:

Yes, that is one of the best,,But buy the Graham Cracker crust already made in some shops here and in all in the states.

Disagree, use good quality digestive biscuits (such as McVitie), crumble up until very fine, and add melted butter. Put into the baking tin and press flat to the bottom, then chill in the fridge for an hour or so. I've tried the ready made crust you mention, and I find it fairly bland.

Originally Posted by PAG

Disagree, use good quality digestive biscuits (such as McVitie), crumble up until very fine, and add melted butter.

In the states I have never saw anything called a digestive biscuit, what the fuck ever one is, I take it to be some kind of cookie,, but we do this with Graham crackers, run em in a blender and use butter.
But I would think that a blander crust would not impart so much of a different flavor to your basic cheesecake flavor.
Of coarse unless it was a choc with Oreo crust which does sound interesting.
Living here and cooking you do learn to use some different things to come up with good food.

Originally Posted by blackgang

Originally Posted by PAG

Disagree, use good quality digestive biscuits (such as McVitie), crumble up until very fine, and add melted butter.

In the states I have never saw anything called a digestive biscuit, what the fuck ever one is, I take it to be some kind of cookie,, but we do this with Graham crackers, run em in a blender and use butter.
But I would think that a blander crust would not impart so much of a different flavor to your basic cheesecake flavor.
Of coarse unless it was a choc with Oreo crust which does sound interesting.
Living here and cooking you do learn to use some different things to come up with good food.

Yes, biscuit = cookie (at least if you're from the UK). You will find them in any of the major supermarkets here in Thailand (Tesco, Tops, Village Market etc). Most popular brand is McVitie, though Crawfords are also available, but more expensive.