Appetizers
Reading edition
Cottage Cheese Rolls
1 cup cottage cheese ½ teaspoon Worcestershire sauce 2 tablespoons chili sauce Salt and pepper 12 slices dried beef
Mix cheese, sauces, and seasonings. Spread on beef, roll and fasten with toothpicks.
Cottage Canape Spread
2 cups sieved cottage cheese 1 tablespoon bouillon paste few drops onion juice
Drain excess moisture from cottage cheese and force through fine sieve. Combine with bouillon paste and onion juice and beat vigorously to blend. Chill until ready to use. Use as a spread on crisp wafers.
Cheese and Jelly Tray
1 pound cream-style cottage cheese Toasted crackers
Choice of one or more of the following:
Raspberry jam Strawberry preserves Currant jelly Orange marmalade
Drain off excess moisture from cheese and put through a fine sieve or whip until smooth. Pile in a serving dish. In a similar dish or dishes unmold the jelly or jam, and place on one side of a round or square tray. Arrange rows of over-lapping toasted crackers on the other side of tray and serve while crackers are still warm.
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Fluffy Cottage Cheese
1 cup sieved cottage cheese ¼ cup sour cream Salt and pepper
Mix cheese and sour cream lightly together, just enough to blend. Season to taste. (More elaborate seasonings for cottage cheese are caraway and poppy seeds, garlic and onion salts, and herbs.) Serve as a dip for potato chips.
Avocado Dunk
1 cup sieved cottage cheese Salt and pepper Pickle relish Horseradish 1 Avocado, mashed Grated onion Cream or mayonnaise
Blend cottage cheese well with mashed avocado and seasoning. Thin with cream or mayonnaise. Serve as a dip for potato chips.
Cottage Cheese Spreads
Combine cottage cheese, anchovies, paprika, and a dash of cayenne. Serve on tiny crackers.
Mix flaked salmon or tuna, lemon juice, olives and/or pickles, minced parsley and blue cheese; serve on rye bread.
Combine cottage cheese, chopped salted peanuts, and mayonnaise. Spread on crackers.
Combine ground dried beef, grated onion, and pickles with cottage cheese. Serve on crackers.
Stuffed Celery
Fill crisp stalks of celery with cottage cheese. Arrange them petal fashion on a round chop plate, and fill the center with olives.
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