Talk:Cottage cheese

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What the heck is Jello salad?

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 Was this cheese originally made in the countryside or somehow associated with cottages?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)

[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).