Ultimate Cracow Style Cheesecake

I like all kinds of cheesecakes, but Cracow Style Cheesecake is my favourite one. This recipe is base on Pierre Herme, found on White Plate.

Ingredients:

For crust pie:

• 250 g all purpose flour, 
• 125 g confectioners sugar, 
• vanilla beans from 1 pod (or 1 tsp. vanilla paste) 
• 125 g cold butter, 
• 1 large egg, 
• 1 hard boiled yolk, grounded;

For cheese batter:

• 1 kg cottage cheese or quark cheese,
• 8 large eggs, yolks and eggs whites separated,
• 100 g unsalted butter, at room temperature 
• 100 g confectioners sugar, 
• 1 tsp. vanilla paste, 
• 3 Tbsp potato or corn starch, 
• 1 egg yolk whisked with 2 Tbsp milk, for brushing,
• 100 g seedless raisins;

Method: 

1. Place all the ingredients into a bowl, mix until they are combined. Don't overwork the dough otherwise will be hard after baking. Wrap dough in the plastic foil and put into the refrigerator for 30-40 minutes. 
2. Take ⅔ of the dough and roll out to a thickness of one-fourth inch. Place into prepared baking pan. 
3. Bake in the oven preheated to 350°F for 10 to 15 minutes or until golden brown. 
4. Beat butter with half of sugar until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Add yolks, waiting after each until previous completely incorporated. Then add cheese, slowly spoon by spoon until all ingredients will be well mixed. 
5. Beat eggs whites with remain sugar until stiff peaks. 
6. Add to the cheese batter raisins and starch. 
7. Put egg whites to the batter and gently fold. 
8. Roll out the second disk of pastry slightly thinner than the bottom crust, about one-eighth inch, but into more of a square shape. Use a knife or pastry wheel to cut long strips. Create lattice pattern on the top of cheesecake.
9. Brush lattice with egg wash. 
10. Bake in a bain marin (water bath-see in Cooking Techniques and Tips) for 60 minutes in the oven preheated to 325°F. 
11. When done turn off oven and leave a cheesecake additional one hour to cool down slowly.
12. Afert an hour take off from the oven and cool down to the temperature room. After that keep in the refrigerator until served.