DOUGH:

1 1/4 cups sifted flour
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. lemon peel, grated
1/2 cup sweet butter
1 egg yolk
2 tbsp. Ligvore Galliano

Mix flour, sugar, salt, and lemon peel in a bowl. Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse meal. Mix in egg yolk and Galliano until pastry is blended. Press pastry over bottom and up sides (1 3/4 inches) of 9-inch spring form pan. Bake in a preheated oven at 350 degrees for 15 minutes, until dry, but not browned.

FILLING:

30 oz. Ricotta or mild, creamed cottage cheese
4 eggs
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup flour
1/4 cup Ligvore Galliano
2 tbsp. golden raisins
2 tbsp. finely chopped candied orange or lemon peel

If using cottage cheese, put through a fine sieve. Blend cheese, eggs, sugar, and flour in a bowl. Stir in Galliano, raisins and peel. Pour cheese filling into crust in pan.

Bake in preheated oven at 325°F for 1 hour or until golden brown. Release cake from spring-form pan and cool on a rack.

Makes a 9-inch cake.