{"id":2906,"date":"2004-05-15T21:07:22","date_gmt":"2004-05-16T03:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.draugas.org\/news\/?p=2906"},"modified":"2016-02-14T09:22:20","modified_gmt":"2016-02-14T15:22:20","slug":"say-cheeeeeese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.draugas.org\/news\/say-cheeeeeese\/","title":{"rendered":"Say cheeeeeese!"},"content":{"rendered":"

POTATO CAKE WITH COTTAGE CHEESE<\/strong>
\nBulvi\u0173 plok\u0161tainis su var\u0161ke<\/em><\/p>\n

2 lbs. potatoes
\n1\u00bd cups dry cottage cheese
\n2 eggs, beaten
\n1 cup milk
\n2 oz. bacon, chopped
\n1 Tbsp. sour cream
\n6 Tbsps. butter
\n1 tsp. French tarragon
\n1 tsp. sugar
\nPinch of salt
\nGrate potatoes and remove most of the potato liquid. Bring milk to a boil and pour into grated potatoes. Mix well. Fry bacon and add to potato mixture. Blend cottage cheese with eggs, sugar, salt and tarragon. Mix well. Grease baking dish and pour a first layer with \u00bd potato mixture. Cover potato layer with cottage cheese mix and top with remaining potato mixture. Bake for 1 hour in a preheat- ed oven at 350 \u00b0 . Serve with melted butter or sour cream.<\/p>\n

CHEESE DUMPLINGS<\/strong>
\nVar\u0161k\u0117\u010diai<\/em><\/p>\n

1\u00bd cups dry cottage cheese
\n2 eggs, beaten
\n1 cup flour
\n6 Tbsps. butter
\nSalt to taste
\nAdd eggs, flour and salt to cottage cheese and blend well. Shape dump- lings into finger thick rolls, 2 inch long. Cook dumplings in salted water for 5\u201310 minutes. These dumplings can also be fried in hot oil, until golden brown. Water cooked dump- lings are served hot with butter-sour cream sauce. Oil fried dumplings are served dusted with powder sugar and eaten hot or cold.<\/p>\n

COTTAGE CHEESE POTATO PANCAKES<\/strong>
\nBulviniai blynai su var\u0161ke<\/em><\/p>\n

10 potatoes, peeled and grated
\n3 eggs, beaten
\n1 cup dry cottage cheese
\n\u00bd cup flour
\nSalt and pepper to taste
\nOil for frying
\nMix grated potatoes with flour, eggs, cottage cheese, salt and pepper. Blend all ingredients. Drop by spoonful into hot oil, fry on both sides until crisp. Serve with sour cream, sugar, apple sauce or fruit preserves.<\/p>\n

COTTAGE CHEESE SQUARE<\/strong>
\nPlok\u0161tainis su var\u0161ke<\/em><\/p>\n

3\u00bd cups flour
\n\u00bd lb. butter
\n\u00bd cup small raisins without seeds
\n2 eggs
\n2 Tbsps. sour cream
\n1 package baking powder
\nFilling
\n1\u00bd lb. fresh cottage cheese
\n\u00bd cup sugar
\n2 oz. butter
\n3 egg yolks
\n1 package vanilla sugar
\n\u00bd cup sugar
\nCream butter until white. Separately, cream egg yolks with sugar, then mix with butter and sour cream. Add the flour, mixed with baking powder. Quickly knead the dough in a cool place, cover with a cloth and let stand in a cool place to set. Roll out \u00be of the dough to a thickness of 1 \/ 3 inch, spread in prepared baking sheet, and bake until the top of the cake is light golden. Reserve \u00bc of the dough for garnish. In the meantime, prepare the cottage cheese filling. Cream egg yolks with butter and sugar. Force cottage cheese through the sieve, so that there are no lumps. Mix with the egg yolk mixture and beat well. When almost done, add raisins and vanilla sugar. Remove partially baked dough from the oven. Quickly spread the filling over it to a thickness of 1\/3 inch. Decorate the top with strips of the same dough, brush with beaten egg and bake 20 to 30 minutes in a hot oven (450\u00b0).
\nWant to make your own cottage cheese to use in recipes? Try this one:<\/p>\n

HOME-MADE COTTAGE CHEESE<\/strong>
\nNamin\u0117 var\u0161k\u0117<\/em>
\n1 gallon milk (1% or 2%)
\n\u00bd quart buttermilk
\nPour milk into a large saucepan or stock pot, add buttermilk. Cover with a dishcloth to keep dust particles out of the milk. Set in a warm place for about 48 hours, until it has the consistency of \u201cjello.\u201d (The surface will split when a spoon is drawn through it.) Warm the milk on very low heat for 45\u201360 minutes, until the curds separate, and the yellow liquid is fairly clear. Check every 10 minutes. DO NOT OVERHEAT, or the curds will be dry and tasteless. Strain for about 1 hour through a colander lined with cheesecloth or two \u201cJ-Cloths.\u201d Trans- fer to a bowl or container, cover, refrigerate. Makes 4 cups. This cottage cheese can be used in any recipe calling for this type of cheese. It is also delicious on toast, with or without jam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

POTATO CAKE WITH COTTAGE CHEESE Bulvi\u0173 plok\u0161tainis su var\u0161ke 2 lbs. potatoes 1\u00bd cups dry cottage cheese 2 eggs, beaten 1 cup milk 2 oz. bacon, chopped 1 Tbsp. sour cream 6 Tbsps. butter 1 tsp. French tarragon 1 tsp. sugar Pinch of salt Grate potatoes and remove most of the potato liquid. Bring milk …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[78,137],"class_list":["post-2906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-food-cooking","tag-lith-heritage","tag-siliunas-d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draugas.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draugas.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draugas.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draugas.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draugas.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.draugas.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draugas.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draugas.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draugas.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}