The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-11
WAYS TO USE
 COTTAGE CHEESE

Cottage cheese is richer in protein than most meats and is very much cheaper Every pound contains more chief material for bodybuilding. It is than three ounces of protein, the also valuable source of energy, though not so high as foods with more fat. It follows that it's value in this respect can be greatly increased by serving it with cream, as is so commonly done.
 Cottage cheese alone is an appetizing and nutritious dish. It may also be served with sweet or sour cream, and some people add a little sugar, or chives, chopped onion, or caraway seed.
 The following recipes illustrate a number of ways in which cottage cheese may be served. Cottage Cheese With Preserves and
 Jellies
 Pour over cottage cheese any fruit preserves, such as strawberries, figs or cherries. Serve with bread or crackers. If preferred, cottag cheese balls may be served separately and eaten with the preserves. A very dainty dish may be made by dropping a bit of jelly into nest of the cot tage cheese.
 Cottage Cheese Salad Mix thoroughly one pound of cheese, one and one7half tablespoon fuls of cream, one tablespoonful of chopped parsley and salt to taste. First, fill a rectangular tin mold with cold water to chill and wet the sur face; line the bottom with waxed pa per, then pack in three layers, putting two or three parallel strips of pimen- to between layers. Cover with wax ed paper and set in a cool place until ready to serve; then run a knife around the sides and invert. the mold. Cut in slices and serve on lettuce leaves with French dressing and wa fers. Minced olives may be used in- stead of the parsley, and chopped nuts also may be added.
 Cottage-C Cheese Rolls
 (To be used like meat rolls)
 A, large variety of rolls, suitable for serving as the main dish at dinner, may be made by combining 1egumes Oceans of various kinds, cowpeas, lentils, or peas)S with cottage cheese. and adding bread crumbs to make the mixture thick enough to form into a roll. Beans are usually mashed, but peas or small lima beans may be com bined with, bread crumbs and cottage cheese, and enough of the liquor in which the vegetables have been cook ed may be added to get the right consistency; or, instead of beans or peas, chopped spinach, beet tops, or head lettuce may be added.
 Boston Roast
 One pound can of kidney beans or equivalent quantity or cooked beans.
 One-ha1f pound of cottage cheese.
 Bread crumbs.
 Salt.
 Mash the beans or put them through a meat grinder. Add the cheese and bread crumbs enough to make the mixture sufficiently stiff to be formed into a roll. Bake in a mod crate oven, basting occasionally with butter or other fat, and water. Serve with tomato sauce. This dish may be favored with chopped onions cooked in butter or other fat and a very lit tie water until tender.
 Pimento and Cottage Cheese Roast
 2 cupfuls of cooked lima beans.
 1-4 pound of cottage cheese.
 5 canned pimentos.
 Bread crumbs.
 Salt.
 Put the first three ingredients through a meat chopper. Mix thor oughly and add bread crumbs until it is still enough to form into roll Brown in the oven, basting occasion ally with butter or other fat, and wa ter.
 Cottage Cheese and Nut Roast
 1 cupful of cottage cheese.
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 1 cupful of bread crumbs.
 2 tablespoonfuls of chopped onion.
 1 tablespoonful of butter.
 Juice of half a lemon
 Salt and pepper.
 Cook the onion in the butter or other fat and a little water until ten der. Mix the other ingredients and moisten with the water in which the onion has been cooked. Pour into a shallow baking dish and brown in the oven.
 (For use with eggs, milk toast, or
 other dishes
 ] cupful of milk, 1 tablespoonful of cottage cheese, 2 tablespoonfuls of flour, salt and pepper to taste.
 Thicken the milk with the flour and just before serving add the cheese, stirring until it is melted.
 This sauce may be used in prepar- ing creaned eggs or for ordinary milk toast. The quantity of cheese in the recipe may be increased, making a sauce suitable for using with maca- roni or rice.