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"Polly Esther" > wrote:

> I tried a recipe today for 'twice-baked' or 'stuffed' baked potatoes. One of
> the ingredients is 1/2 cup of cottage cheese for 3 potatoes. I'm really not
> familiar with cottage cheese; only had it served to me sort of plopped atop
> a pear or peach half. It's surprising how sour the recipe turned out. The
> cottage cheese is by Kraft and the 'use by' date is May although, of course,
> I don't know if it was kindly treated before purchase. Does cottage cheese
> have a sour taste? and what could I substitute if so? Polly

I probably would have skipped the cottage cheese and used sour cream.
Someone else might have used cream cheese.
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