[Sca-cooks] Playing with cottage cheese ;o)

[ranvaig at columbus.rr.com]

>Now that I've got your attention (what kinda weird thing is Maire up to
>now???), I'm asking for ideas.
>I came home tonight with a (free) 5 lb. container of cottage cheese.
>I'd like to play (recipes, sillies!).  Does anyone have any ideas?
>Period is good, but modern's okay, too.

Try putting part of it in the food processor til smooth.  Line a 
sieve with a clean cloth, pour in the cheese and let it drain.  After 
a while gather the edges and hang it to drain over night. Use this 
for any cheese dish or for dips

Here are a few things I found googling "medieval cottage cheese"
Cheese cake
Lasagne
Tart for ember day
Greek Filo pastries filled with spinach and cottage cheese or cc and feta
Samartard Cottage cheese fritters  http://www.godecookery.com/nboke/nboke07.htm
Shiraz bi-Buqal Dry Curds with Vegetables
http://www.godecookery.com/friends/frec103.htm
To make Curd-Cakes http://www.godecookery.com/engrec/engrec83.html
Romanian recipes:
"Papanasi" (cottage cheese donuts, topped with sour cream and fruit 
preserve), "clatite cu branza" (crepes filled with cottage cheese, 
raisins and spices)
Small Bohemian pancakes with plum jam and cottage cheese
Fruit dumpling with cottage cheese

"cassata" (Scilian cake containing cottage cheese, chocolate and candied fruit)
Christmas Stollen http://www.alexcia.com/xmas/xmasrecipe.shtml

Czech: buchty Stuffed with sort of a cottage cheese and raisins or a plum jam!

Sambocade Cheesecake http://www.epicureaders.com/englishrecipes.html

Pierogies filled with cottage cheese

Have fun   *S*
Ranvaig