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Chocolate cheesecake with fig crust (recipes) and Tower (medicine)


Chocolate cheesecake with fig crust (recipes)






Serves 6-8



Preparation time

over 2 hours



Cooking time

less than 10 mins

















Ingredients



For the crust:18 dried figs, stalk ends removed110g/4oz crushed chocolate wafer biscuitsFor the filling:20g/¾oz gelatinè250ml/8fl oz evaporated milk4tbsp of cocoa powder2 tsp vanilla essence450g/16oz cottage cheese170g/6oz brown sugar225g/8oz Greek yoghurtpaper-thin orange slices or blanched orange zest strips, to garnish



Method



1. make the crust: process the figs in a Food processor for a few seconds, add the broken wafers and continue processing until they clump together in a sticky ball. Do not process for too long or the wafers will lose their texture.2. Press the crust mixture into the bottom and up the sides of a lightly greased, high-sided, 23cm/9in spring-release tin. 3. make the filling: sprinkle the gelatinè over the evaporated milk in a small pan and allow to soften for 1 minute. Warm over a low heat, stirring until the gelatinè is completely dissolved, about 3 minutes.4. In a Food processor, whizz the cocoa powder, vanilla, cottage cheese, brown sugar and yoghurt until smooth.5. Add the milk and gelatinè mixture and pulse until well mixed. 6. Pour into the prepared crust and chill until set, about 3 hours.7. Unmold, slice with a warm knife and garnish each piece with a paper-thin orange slice or blanched orange zest to serve.



Tower (medicine)


tower


1. A mass of building standing alone and insulated, usually higher than its diameter, but when of great size not always of that proportion. A projection from a line of wall, as a fortification, for purposes of defense, as a flanker, either or the same height as the curtain wall or higher.

A structure appended to a larger edifice for a special purpose, as for a belfry, and then usually high in proportion to its width and to the height of the rest of the edifice; as, a church tower.

2. A citadel; a fortress; hence, a defense. "Thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy." (Ps. Lxi. 3)

3. A headdress of a high or towerlike form, fashionable about the end of the seventeenth century and until 1715; also, any high headdress. "Lay trains of amorous intrigues In towers, and curls, and periwigs." (Hudibras)

4. High flight; elevation.

<chemistry> Gay Lussac's tower, a bastion of masonry, often with chambers beneath, built at an angle of the interior polygon of some works.

<botany> Tower mustard, the cruciferous plant Arabis perfoliata. Tower of London, a collection of buildings in the eastern part of London, formerly containing a state prison, and now used as an arsenal and repository of various objects of public interest.

Origin: OE. Tour,tor,tur, F. Tour, L. Turris; akin to Gr.; cf. W. Twr a tower, Ir. Tor a castle, Gael. Torr a tower, castle. Cf. Tor, Turret.

Source: Websters Dictionary