[Sca-cooks] Almond Milk Cheese Redux

[Terry Decker]

> I found the information that Bear posted quite helpful - that quark means
> curds - so perhaps the way to translate this recipe for "mandel zu:ger" is
> almond curd rather than almond cheese?   It took a while to find the
> glossary references to the medieval zuger/zyger/ziger meaning quark so I
> thought it meant something similar to the modern.  Well, as we all know,
> that assumption can be a mistake!  However, it seems clear from the recipe
> that this is a simple fresh cheese such as quark still is.  What a great
> onomatopoetic word for the sound of a squeeking cheese curd :)
>
> Katherine

The modern spelling is Zieger(ka:se) meaning "soft, milk, or cream cheese." 
A reference in Cassell's places ziger as Swiss dialect, and Zieger as 
dialect, so it is likely that this pops up in works written in Souther 
Germany and Switzerland.  As a possibly bad guess, the word may originally 
refer to goat's (die Ziege) milk cheese.

Bear