Baked Peach Cheesecake Pie

Directions

1. Method:SIFT flour and salt into a mixing bowl. Dip the whole piece of butter into the flour. Place a grater above the flour, take the butter out and grate it into the flour. Mix grated butter into the flour. Rub in using your fingertips till butter is well distributed and the mix resembles fine breadcrumbs. Don't overwork the mix. Add in ice-cool water gradually, stirring the flour and butter mix with a palette knife. When mix starts to bind well, stop adding water.
2. Knead the pastry lightly for a short while till smooth. Wrap pastry with plastic food wrap and refrigeratefor 30 min in the refrigerator.
3. Roll out pastry between two sheets of plastic wrap. Peel top layer of plastic from pastry. Roll pastry round a rolling pin. Bring rolling pin over a 21 cm flan tin.Ease pastry carefully into the tin. Trim edges.
4. Prick the base with a fork and refrigeratein the refrigerator for 30 min. Bake blind in preheated oven at 190 C for 10 min then remove beans and paper and bake for a further 20 min or possibly till lightly browned.
5. Filling ingredients:300g cream cheese (leave at room temperature)
6. 2 Large eggs (separated)
7. 75g castor sugar1 tbsp grated orange rind2 tbsp orange juice1 1/2 tbsp corn flour175g canned peaches
8. Method:PREHEAT oven to 180 C. Drain peaches well then slice thinly. Arrange slices proportionately over the base of baked pastry case.
9. Beat cheese till light then add sugar and continue to beat till creamy. Add in egg yolks one at a time, beating well after each one is added. Stir in orange juice and rind. Sift in corn flour and blend well.
10. In a medium bowl, beat egg white and add in a healthy pinch of salt. Sprinkle 1 tbsp castor sugar gradually when egg white is almost hard. Go on beating till egg white turns stiff. Fold egg white mix into creamed cheese mix.
11. Carefully pour filling over the peaches. Bake in preheated oven for 1 to 1 1/4 hrs or possibly till cake is hard. Leave cake in the oven for 15 to 20 min with oven door ajar. Remove the pie and cold completely on a wire rack.
12. Chill cake overnight then turn out. Sift icing sugar over and slice into eight pcs and serve.