Authentic Lindy's Famous New York Cheesecake

Ingredients

• ½ cup
• sugar
• ½ cup
• sugar
• 1
• lemon, zest of, finely grated
• 1
• + 87 more ingredients
• • lemon, zest of, finely grated
  • 4 tablespoons
  • cold
  • unsalted butter, cut into 4 pieces.
  • 4 tablespoons
  • cold
  • unsalted butter, cut into 4 pieces.
  • 1 large
  • egg yolk
  • 1 large
  • egg yolk
  • 1 tablespoon
  • water
  • 1 tablespoon
  • water
  • 1 teaspoon
  • pure vanilla extract
  • 1 teaspoon
  • pure vanilla extract
  • 1 cup
  • all-purpose flour
  • 1 cup
  • all-purpose flour
  • 5 (8 ounce) packages
  • neufchatel cheese, at room temperature
  • 5 (8 ounce) packages
  • neufchatel cheese, at room temperature
  • 1 ¾ cups
  • sugar
  • 1 ¾ cups
  • sugar
  • 4 tablespoons
  • all-purpose flour
  • 4 tablespoons
  • all-purpose flour
  • ¼ teaspoon
  • salt
  • ¼ teaspoon
  • salt
  • 1
  • orange, zest of, finely grated
  • 1
  • orange, zest of, finely grated
  • 1
  • lemon, zest of, finely grated
  • 1
  • lemon, zest of, finely grated
  • 1 tablespoon
  • pure vanilla extract
  • 1 tablespoon
  • pure vanilla extract
  • 5 large
  • eggs
  • 5 large
  • eggs
  • 2 large
  • egg yolks
  • 2 large
  • egg yolks
  • ¼ cup
  • heavy cream
  • ¼ cup
  • heavy cream
  • ¾ cup
  • sugar
  • ¾ cup
  • sugar
  • ¹/₃ cup
  • water
  • ¹/₃ cup
  • water
  • 1 pinch
  • salt
  • 1 pinch
  • salt
  • 1 ½ tablespoons
  • cornstarch
  • 1 ½ tablespoons
  • cornstarch
  • 2 teaspoons
  • unsalted butter
  • 2 teaspoons
  • unsalted butter
  • 1 teaspoon
  • fresh lemon juice
  • 1 teaspoon
  • fresh lemon juice

1 For the pastry, place the sugar and lemon zest in a food processor for 5 seconds. 2 Add the butter, egg yolk, water, and vanilla and pulse until the mixture looks granular and lumpy; the butter should be in about 1/4-inch pieces. 3 Add the flour and pulse rapidly 20 to 30 times, stopping occa...

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