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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cottage cheese
noun
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▪ In 1980, the per capita consumption in the United States was 18 pounds of cheese of which one-third was cottage cheese.
▪ Meanwhile, in a blender, liquefy the cottage cheese and milk.
▪ Sieve the cottage cheese, or pur e in a food processor or liquidiser and beat in the egg and milk.
▪ This will make dining out much easier and of course extends the variety of protein foods beyond fish, chicken and cottage cheese!
▪ Top with the cottage cheese, and sprinkle the mixed herbs on top.
▪ Turn heat on low, and slowly stir in cottage cheese mixture.
▪ Waistliner - combine cottage cheese, diced red pepper and sweetcorn. 7.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cottage cheese

Cottage \Cot"tage\ (k?t"t?j; 48), n. [From Cot a cottage.] A small house; a cot; a hut.

Note: The term was formerly limited to a habitation for the poor, but is now applied to any small tasteful dwelling; and at places of summer resort, to any residence or lodging house of rustic architecture, irrespective of size.

Cottage allotment. See under Alloment. [Eng.]

Cottage cheese, the thick part of clabbered milk strained, salted, and pressed into a ball.

Wiktionary
cottage cheese

n. A cheese curd product with a mild flavor. It is drained, but not pressed so some whey remains.

WordNet
cottage cheese

n. mild white cheese made from curds of soured skim milk [syn: pot cheese, farm cheese, farmer's cheese]

Wikipedia
Cottage cheese

Cottage cheese is a fresh cheese curd product with a mild flavor.

Usage examples of "cottage cheese".

Something had gone bad, in there amid the cold french fries, bits of Burger King hamburgers, Spam, cottage cheese, milk, half-empty cans of baked beans, and a few jars of Gerber's baby food.

But the table in the dinette was set for four and at each place was a cottage cheese-filled canned peach set on a leaf of iceberg lettuce.

I took some bread from the board and spread cottage cheese on it and ate, and drank wine.

The walnut and cottage cheese pate and the vegetable curry had been disgusting.

ON MONDAY MORNING as Qwilleran was preparing to serve the Siamese their minced beef mixed with cottage cheese and laced with tomato sauce, there was an explosion in the woods, and a rusty pickup with camper top lurched into the clearing.

The house was a large, hollowed-out cottage cheese, long since hardened into rigidity.

Next day, in the Corinium canteen, Daysee Butler and Deirdre Kilpatrick took their cottage cheese and kiwi-fruit salads to a corner table and didn't notice Cameron sitting next door.

Dor was tempted to make a detour to the spot where his cottage cheese existed in his own day, but resisted.

With the absence of the cloud cover that normally caused the sky over Seattle to resemble cottage cheese that had been dragged nine miles behind a cement truck, the city, for the first time in memory, would have an unobstructed view of one of nature's most mystical spectacles.

Time and again on this trip I had seen news stories that would elsewhere have been treated as colossal tragedies-a dozen people killed by floods in the South, ten crushed when a store roof collapsed in Texas, twenty-two dead in a snowstorm in the East-and each of them treated as a brief and not terribly consequential diversion between ads for hemorrhoid unguents and cottage cheese.

It was a fine cottage cheese just off the palace grounds, which he had moved into when he married.

It was about the consistency of thin cottage cheese, but it had the most sickening smell I have ever run up against.