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Uses for cottage cheese
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> On Wed, 29 Nov 2017 07:11:16 -0800, Taxed and Spent
> > wrote:
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>>On 11/28/2017 5:53 AM, jmcquown wrote:
>>> On 11/27/2017 2:32 PM, wrote:
>>>> Taxed and Spent wrote:
>>>>>> On 11/26/2017 7:43 PM, notbob wrote:
>>>>>>> On 2017-11-27, Hank Rogers > wrote:
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>>>>>>>> jmcquown wrote:
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>>>>>>>>> How about lasagna? My mother used cottage cheese rather
>>>>>>>>> than ricotta. It works.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> But it's a good idea, not much difference in the two cheeses.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Agree.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> First heard about cottage cheese in lasagne from the wildly popular
>>>>>>> diet book, Calories Don't Count, from the 60s. Lotta ppl made it,
>>>>>>> as
>>>>>>> it was a very popular book. I was jesta kid, but I remember eating
>>>>>>> lotsa 'cottage cheese' lasagne's and they were always good.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I later went into a 'lasagne stage', using lotsa diferent ricottas,
>>>>>>> so
>>>>>>> I know of what I speak. 
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> nb
>>>>>
>>>>> Or make your own ricotta. It is simple enough.
>>>>
>>>> Would be nice if you'd explain....
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>>> I wouldn't bother making my own ricotta. I rarely need ricotta (or
>>> cottage cheese) so I just buy a small amount as needed.
>>>
>>> Jill
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>>Yes, but she said ricotta wasn't available.
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> I likely wouldn't make my own cottage cheese either, especially with
> my living in dairy country, but still I'd be interested in how someome
> who says it's easy makes it... and because it's not all about me... a
> discussion about make cheese, unlike most of the dreck posted here,
> is very appropriate for a food group.
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> I actually can't remember the last time I bought cottage cheese,
> however a few times a year I buy Farmer's Cheese and Pot Cheese.
> Farmer's cheese is like a very dry version of cottage cheese, very
> good in sandwhiches in lieu of cream cheese as it won't run out like
> cottage cheese. Pot cheese is a very large curd version of cottage
> cheese that I like for its tangy flavor and prefer it for lasasgna...
> I find ricotta too sweet... I think ricotta is best suited for
> pastries like cannoli. All these various types of cheese are readily
> available at stores near where I live.
My mom said her mom made cottage cheese when she was growing up. She just
put sour milk on the back of the stove in a hot pan over a very low heat for
a very long time. She said it wasn't good and wasn't like what we get in the
stores today.
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