Talk:Cottage cheese

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Contents 1 Jello salad 2 Curds and whey 3 Origin of name "Cottage"? 4 Link to non-bacteria cottage cheese recipe 5 Trivia Section 6 fat profile 7 Line 1 8 Cottage Cheese etymology

[edit] Jello salad

What the heck is Jello salad?

Anything mixed together is sometimes referred to as a 'salad'. Tuna salad = tuna and mayonnaise. Chicken salad = chicken, mayo, sometimes random fruit and nuts. (In the same sense, a junkyard could be referred to as a 'car salad') Jello salad = jello served with cottage cheese, either on the side or on top of. Usually not molded into the gelatin itself. --StarChaser Tyger 08:05, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

A salad is somewhat ambiguously defined, much like a sandwich. Some people consider a variety of things (such as filled pitas, burritos, hamburgers, etc. as sandwiches, some do not. Similarly, salads are sometimes referred to by some as anything mixed together, and some people have more stringent guidelines. --ForbiddenWord 12:53, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Curds and whey

So is cottage cheese the same as curds and whey or not?

The article says that it is. However, after adding a recipe for curds and whey it was posted that they arenot the same thing (but the ref to curds and whey is still there). --TheSimkin 22:00, 2005 Jun 8 (UTC)

Any time you make cheese, you get chewy lumps (curd) and watery stuff (whey). See Manufacturing of Cheddar cheese for example. Normally, you drain away the whey and press the curds into solid blocks of cheese. With Cottage Cheese, you leave the curds loose and leave in some of the whey. So, technically, Cottage Cheese is 'curds and whey'. However, it might not be the curds and whey referred to in the nursery rhyme. The terms are too generic to determine which particular cheese they're talking about. It is probably the closest us city folk will ever get to curds and whey, though. --Mdwyer 15:21, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Origin of name "Cottage"?

Can someone answer where the name Cottage came from? Was this cheese originally made in the countryside or somehow associated with cottages?

Like a cottage industry? It was something cottagers (in the old sense) could make themselves in their cottage with little ingredients or equipment.

I'm not certain, but I believe that this was a cheese that people made quickly at home. Not a cottage industry, but made quickly for their own family.

Maybe it's something to do with cottaging? lol--Manboobies 21:40, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Or maybe a bastardization of "Ricotta" Amber388 04:25, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Link to non-bacteria cottage cheese recipe

I think the recipe uses bacteria - you add buttermilk (contains bacteria) to milk, and keep it warm for 12 hours. Definitely bacterial? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 62.194.149.82 (talk • contribs) 12:23, 3 December 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Trivia Section

Who likes cottage cheese isn't a notable fact about cottage cheese. It might be a notable fact about those people. If so it belongs in their articles. Zsero 10:44, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] fat profile

can someone add the exact fat profile of cottage cheese

IE how much unsaturated and trans fat it has? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 88.155.107.129 (talk) 13:41, 17 April 2007 (UTC).

depends on the brand/country/type of cottage cheese

1% from canada: 1g fat .5g saturated .1g trans / 125g (1/4 container) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.157.240.152 (talk) 07:39, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Line 1

The first sentence says cottage cheese comes from chickens. I really believe it to be a dairy product coming from cows!

[edit] Cottage Cheese etymology

I see recently that speculation that the name "Cottage cheese" came from it being made in small huts or cottages has been added. We need a source to verify this claim, otherwise it remains just speculation and [[WP:OR|original research. --ForbiddenWord 18:37, 23 July 2007 (UTC)