John's Mom's Cheese cake

Here is the recipe that I found in John's mom's collection of recipes. It is a cheese cake recipe that MaryAnn made for many occasions. It was one of John's favorites, I, on the other hand, do not enjoy cheese cake unless it includes lots of chocolate or other goodies.
Anyway, I decided to attempt to make the cheese cake for John's dad's birthday. My first challenge was to find dried cottage cheese. I had never even heard of it, much less know where to find it. I googled it and that was not much help.
In the end, I located it at Festival Foods in Oshkosh. After finding the dried cottage cheese I was ready to give it a whirl. Started with some eggs, sugar, lemon, and a little salt. Easy enough so far.

Here is the whipping cream and the dried cottage cheese which gets added next.

The recipe said nothing about doing anything to the cottage cheese, so I just added it as is, but I am thinking that maybe I should have blended it up or something to get rid of the chunks. I am anxious to see what John has to say about the texture.

You can see how chunky it is with the cottage cheese and cream just added.

Here is the cheese cake as I put it in the oven. No turning back now. Recipe said bake it for one hour at 350. At this point I have no clue as to how it should look or how to judge when it is done.

And I just accidentally deleted my last photo of the finished product. It came out to the pan without incident. It looks okay, so I will have to update when John tries it for me. That will decide if it will be good enough to take to John's dad tomorrow.

My biggest advice here is to ask people about their recipes before it is too late. I cannot recreate my Grandma's chicken and dumpling soup or her schaumtorte no matter how hard I attempt it because her recipes are very vague. I am hoping that MaryAnn did not leave any important details out of her recipe or John may be disappointed when he tries the cake.