Thread: what is cottage cheese?

as i understand cottage cheese is good for anyone who is lifting weights. so i'd add it to my diet if i'd know what is cottage cheese (in my language it translates as "rustic cheese" and this doesn't explain me anything. is it a cheese which seems like it's made from curd? maybe anyone could post a photo of it?

BTW i know it's stupid question

Yes, it's curds and whey. Think of Little Miss Muffet. She was eating cottage cheese when that nasty old hpider sat down beside 'er and frightened Miss Muffet away.

Little Miss Muffet, sat on a tuffet,
Eating her curds and whey;
Along came a spider, who sat down beside her
And frightened Miss Muffet away.

Dr. Thomas Muffet (possibly Moffett or Moufet), an entomologist who died in 1604, wrote The Silkwormes and their flies "lively described in verse". Miss Muffet is said to depict his daughter, Patience. Accreditation is deemed shaky by some, as the first extant version is dated 1805 in Songs for the Nursery, whose 1812 edition read "Little Mary Ester sat upon a tester . . . ." Halliwell's 1842 collection read "Little Miss Mopsey sat in a shopsey . . . ."

Mother Goose scholars agree that "Little Miss Muffet" is not about Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-1587), supposedly frightened (according to some speculators) by John Knox (1505-1572), Scottish religious reformer.


— based on text in Mother Goose: From Nursery to Literature (McFarland Pub.) by Gloria T. Delamar

It's milk curds from the first steps of cheese making. I can't find any pics of it, but it's basically small white lumps (curds) with a bit of the liquid whey. See this site http://www.stumptuous.com/cottage.html for some recipes and a description of how to make your own.

I think you'll get the idea.