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" Cheesecake. Like apple pie and mac &amp;#039;n cheese, it&amp;#039;s one of those quintessential comfort foods that not only tastes great, but has the ability to reassure you that everything will be okay and maybe things might even get a little better. Now, imagine the importance of having homemade cheesecake when you&amp;#039;re doing time in prison. Author Piper Kerman, imprisoned for a year for drug-related money laundering, knows exactly what that feels like. Just how does one manage to get their hands on the ingredients to make a cheesecake behind bars? &amp;quot;Unlike a lot of prison cookery, most of the necessary ingredients could be bought at the commissary,&amp;quot; explains Piper. According to her, cheesecake was the only dish she prepared because she lacked the patience for the more complicated recipes that evolved in the prisoners cells and partly because she like any good chef, she wanted to perfect her recipe. A &amp;quot;party&amp;quot; was often the impetus for her specialty cake. &amp;quot;I made my first effort at cooking for someone&amp;#039;s going home party, preparing a prison cheesecake according to my co-worker Yvette&amp;#039;s broken-English-and-hand-gesture instructions.&amp;quot; Her cheesecake was definitely in high demand. According to Piper, &amp;quot;[The inmates] would give me the ingredients they had bought from the commissary and I would whip it up, usually very early in the morning before the prison lights would be turned on, so it could chill all day in a bucket of ice.&amp;quot; Curious to see how it tastes? Try Piper&amp;#039;s recipe. Prison Cheesecake   1. Prepare a crust of crushed graham crackers mixed with four pats of margarine stolen from the dining hall. Bake it in a Tupperware bowl for about a minute in the microwave, and allow it to cool and harden. 2. Take one full round of Laughing Cow cheese, smash with a fork, and mix with a cup of vanilla pudding until smooth. Gradually mix in one whole container of Cremora, even though it seems gross. Beat viciously until smooth. Add lemon juice from the squeeze bottle until the mixture starts to stiffen. Note: this will use most of the plastic lemon. 3. Pour into the bowl atop the crust, and put on ice in your bunkie&amp;#039;s cleaning bucket to chill until ready to eat. Do you have a soft spot for cheesecake? Check out this list of ultimate cheesecakes. Recipe excerpted from ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK by Piper Kerman. Copyright (c) 2010 by Piper Kerman. Reprinted by arrangement with Spiegel &amp;amp;amp; Grau.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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