silver@csu-cs.UUCP (09/04/83)
Thank you, bunkerb!dana, for that great cheesecake recipe! As a person
who hates to follow instructions and seldom prepares fancy dishes
anyway, I must say, the recipe was quite simple and the results
delectable (I just had some... yum). I'd like to repeat the recipe in
terms that should be even clearer to hackers like me (e.g., I took some
license with it)...
2 packages soft cream cheese (you know, the mushy white stuff in
the silver wrappings that doesn't really come from
Philadelphia after all; anyway, a package is about 8oz.)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract (which is more alcohol than vanilla
and pretty strong so this part you GOTTA measure)
1/4 cup sugar (but honey works fine too and in fact the result
is so rich you might wanna even use less)
8 ounces cool whip (the fluffy stuff devoid of nutritional value
that you can squirt all over your [MH]OT[OS]S and lick
off, or buy in the nice reusable plastic container)
"Blend all together until creamy with no lumps." This is where you
get to join(1) all the raw data in a big buffer and then filter it
through merge(1m) with the -thick option, I mean, it starts out ultra
lumpy and icky looking and you have to work hard to mix it. Try an
electric beater if you have a cat(1) that can climb wall(1s) to lick
it off the ceiling(3m).
"Pour into a graham cracker crust..." Aha, the BUGS section at last.
You just happened to have a GCC sitting around under /etc/food,
right? If not, don't panic(8), merely crumble a rand(3m) handful of
innocent GCs into a suitable tempfile and mix in some melted butter,
that's what my honey said anyway, but it took too long to melt on top
of the terminal so I used honey instead and it worked fine.
"...and refrigerate for an hour." Even if you have an old-style air-
conditioned computer room, no, it probably isn't cold enough, you
will have to do better. Leave the recipe's stdout in a fridge for
3.6E6 milliseconds while you work on cleaning up stderr, and by the
time you time out your cheesecake will be ready for stdin.
>From the blender of
Alan "if you waste time cooking you miss the next meal" Silverstein