CHEESE IN THE HOUSEHOLD 379 



Cheese and Pimiento Salad 



Stuff canned pimientos with cream cheese, cut into slices and 

 serve one or two slices to each person on lettuce leaves with 

 French dressing. 



(3) Ways to use cottage cheese. Cottage cheese alone 

 is an appetizing and nutritious dish. It may also be 

 served with sweet or sour cream, and some persons add a 

 little sugar, or chives, chopped onion or caraway seed. 



The following recipes l 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 straw- 

 berries, figs or cherries. Serve with bread or crackers. If pre- 

 ferred, cottage cheese balls may be served separately and eaten 

 with the preserves. A very attractive dish may be made by 

 dropping a bit of jelly into a nest of the cottage cheese. 



Cottage Cheese Salad 



Mix thoroughly one pound of cheese, one and one-half table- 

 spoonfuls 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 surface ; line the bottom with waxed paper, 

 then pack in three layers of the cheese, putting two or three 

 parallel strips of pimiento, fresh or canned, between the layers. 

 Cover with waxed 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 wafers or thin bread-and-butter sandwiches. Minced olives 

 may be used instead of the parsley, and chopped nuts also may 

 be added. 



Cottage 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 legumes (beans of various 

 kinds, cowpeas, lentils or peas) with cottage cheese, and adding 



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