Lancaster Farming. Saturday. June 27.1970
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A High Protein , Low Calorie Food
Cottage Cheese Is Good Eating
by Mrs. Richard C. Spence
In Italy. it’s ncotta. in Scot-
I md. it’s bonny clabbei. in Penn
sylvania Dutch, it's smeaicasc
But whatcvei the name, cottage
cheese is good eating
This dau.v delicacy with built
in low-calorie convenience is
leady to eat just spooned fiom
the caiton. Oi. with little effort
and no waste, you can vary cot
tage cheese in many ways.
Cottage cheese is good atop
pancakes with jelly, at lunch in
sandwiches, and as dessert for
dinnei Or txy a different spice
oi heib combination, such as
cuuy, caraway oi poppy seeds,
capeis, losemaiy, tan agon or
gingei
It goes well with any flint —
esh, dned, canned oi fiozen
Drain the funt well for salads
Cottage cheese in a peach half
i-. a fan ly standaid salad, add a
cash of poweied gmgei 01 a
fclivei of candied ginger foi a
oiffeient touch Combine with
fimt gelatin and chopped fruits
foi a molded salad Oi, tiy a
combination with cusp, tangy
vegetables, diced sliced, giated
oi chopped
Foi a low caloue topping o'
chessing, whip cottage cheese in
o blendei, add milk foi a
c.eamiei diessing Use on backed
potatoes or atop asparagus, foi
instance
Cottage cheese helps make an
easy, nutiilious cassciole, too
Add it to cooked, diced meat,
noodles and gieen pepper or
onion Or, you can substitute it
for the ucher sour cream in
beef stioganoff; it adds the
cieamy, piquant llavoi without
extra calories.
For the diet-conscious, cottage
cheese is truly a stay-slim aid
One-half cup creamed cottage
cheese has only 120 calories, but
it contains approximately one
fourth your daily piotein needs,
as much protein as a medium
sc-iving of lean meat or thiee
eggs It’s also an excellent source
ol calcium and the vitamin
üboflavin.
This dauy favoute began, ac
coiding to legend, with an Arab
tiader thousands of years ago
Milk earned through the desert
heat in a pouch made fiom a
sheep’s stomach sepaiated into
curds and whey, a primitive cot
tage cheese Of comse, pot
cheese was made in kitchens in
many lands foi many centunes
In today’s modem dames, mak
ing tendei, delicately flavored
cottage cheese is an ait Skilled
cheese makeis pioduce vauous
foi ms. fiom diy to ci earned,
fiom soft, fine granules to laige
cieamy curds
Cieamed cottage cheese has
added sweet, pastuenzed cieam
The amount of cieam vanes in
diffeient communities, often just
enough is added to make a pro
duct with four pel cent milk fat
content This small amount of
cieam adds flavor and vitamin
\ The diffeience in calories is
small, only 20 caloues per half
:up, to small to matter unless
youi doctoi has piescubed a fat
fiee diet
Of couise, cottage cheese is a
peushable food Use it while
f esh and keep it coveied and
lefiigei ated
To show jou just how veisa
tJe cottage cheese leallj is, we
have some iccipes to fill youi
need foi a main dish, salad, des
sut etc Eveijone loves Italian
foods and Muscleman’s Mani
cotti is full of he man tomato ’n
cheese goodness It is easily pul
togethei too
MUSCLEMAN’S MANICOTTI
18 pieces enriched durum
manicotti
3 pounds cottage cheese,
small curd
2 cups shredded Cheddar
cheese (8 ounces))
4 eggs, beaten
1 4 cup enriched flour
1 tablespoon parsley
2 teaspoons seasoned salt
J 4 teaspoon pepper
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2 cups prepared spaghetti
sauce
Cook manicotti in boiling,
salted water until tender, yet
fitm, six to nine minutes Drain
Cool with cold water: drain
again. Blend together cheeses,
eggs, flour, parsley, salt and pep
per. Stuff manicotti with cheese
filling: place in greased baking
dish. Pour spaghetti sauce over
manicotti. Bake, covered, in pre
heated 400 degrees oven 25 to 35
minutes. Remove from oven and
lei stand, uncovered, 10 minutes
before serving. Six servings.
COTTAGE STUFFED
TOMATOES
6 medium tomatoes
2 cups cottage cheese
•4 cup chopped pimiento
stuffed olives
14 cup shredded carrots
>4 cup chopped pecans
2 tablespoons chopped onion
Tum tomatoes stem end down,
cut each in six sections, cutting
only 2 4 of the way down Gently
spiead sections apait, chill In a
bowl combine cottage cheese,
olives, cauot, pecans and onion,
toss lightly Just befoie serving
place tomatoes on salad gieens
and fill with cottage cheese mix
tuie. Six seivings
COTTAGE CHEESE
POTATO SALAD
14 cup dairy sour cream
2 tablespoons Italian - style
dressing
2 cups peeled diced cooked
potatoes
2 hard cooked eggs, chopped
2 cups cottage cheese
V> cup sliced celery
Vt cup chopped ripe olives
Vi cup sliced radishes
Vs cup chopped green onions
% teaspoon salt
In a large bowl biend togethei
soui ci earn and diessing, add
potatoes and eggs and allow to
mannate while piepaiing lest of
ingiedients Add cottage cheese,
celeiy, olives, ladishes, onions
and salt to potatoes, mix weL
Pack into mold Rcfngeiate sev
eial houis When leady to seive,
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unmold onto greens and fill con- I can (2 1 1 ounces) deviled ham .
ter with vegetable stock relishes, 2 tablespoons chopped onion
it resned. Makes one ring mold, In a small mixing bowl beat
4u, cups; six to eight servings, together cottage cheese and
deviled ham at highest speed o£
FLUFFY TOPPED mixe r until fairly smooth. Stir
PEAR DESSERT onion. Cover and chill. Serve
1 can (I pound 13 ounces) W ith chips, crackers or vegetable
pear halves “dippers." IVt cups.
Vi cup toasted chopped walnuts ______
* Su P M h “ ~,i ' ,l! ,t ' am ’ P«*ty **(>••*
Vz cup cottage cheese As Pa. ScwihJ Champ „
2 tablespoons confectioners Patty Rogere> 16> who has jui
JSST* " 1W “ SSSft h spnn?
®*! h 8 High School, recently repeated a?
Orange nnu , , best-of-show winner in the Penn-
Draxn and chill peai halves, v i v „_:_ c* a f e Grange cotton gar
,oll m nuts. Combine whipped «£j"“ S
Cl earn, cottage cheese, su ß ar, all-time high of
orange and and nutmeg At- : n , 0 _ ntlies
range two pear halves on each nwu entires,
serving plate: top with approxi- Miss Rogers, daughter of Mi.
mately Va cup cottage cheese and Mis Lawrence Rogers, Cam
mixture pel seiving Garnish budge Springs RD2, won with a
with oiange and and any le- di ess she made foi herself as she
maming nuts Fom servings did a yeai ago As m the 19c9
event, she finished first in Class
PINEAPPLE COTTAGE b (12-17 year-olds with garments
CHEESE SPREAD - f o i same age gioup) and then
2 cups cottage cheese bested winneis in Classes A and
1 can (8 3/ 4 ounces) crushed pine- C for lop statewide honors
apple, drained Active in Ciawford county
Combine cottage cheese and grange and 4-H woik, Miss
pineapple, blend thoioughly Par- Rogers said training she received
ticularly good as a spread on in 4-H accounts largely for hei
nut bread or whole wheat bread sewing skills She is a membei
NOTE If cottage'cheese is of Hayfield Giange 800
very cieamy, it should be - Judges for the state finals weie
diamed before combining- .with J&cs Ruth Ann Wilson, Umver
pmeapple Makes 2M> cups. ' sityPark, Mis Ruth Hand, Potts-
DEVILED COTTAGE TJigR Thr
.1 cup cottage chfese
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