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Cottage Cheese

A simple cheese made by curdling skimmed milk with boiling water and salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Cottage Cheese

Ingredients

Directions

Make the curd

  1. Set aside 1 quart of skimmed milk to sour.

  2. When it has thickened, pour in an equal amount of boiling water and let it sit for 30 minutes.

  3. Strain the mixture through a cloth.

Finish and serve

  1. Add coarse sea salt to the curd and serve.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Skimmed milk
Sours and thickens to form the curds that make up the cottage cheese.
Boiling water
Heats the thickened milk, helping the curds separate from the whey.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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