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Old 24-11-2012, 09:42
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I love cottage cheese, but can't stand the lighter choices, and that seems to be all that's on offer in the supermarkets now. Not everyone wants to eat low fat stuff!
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Old 24-11-2012, 10:28
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Cottage cheese has to be the easiest cheese to make at home.
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Old 24-11-2012, 10:45
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Cottage cheese has to be the easiest cheese to make at home.
I think it was the one of the first things taught in primary school.cooking lessons and with the whey we made junket. Although they may have been two seperate lessons merged in my memory. I wonder if they still teach anything like this now or if it has become a bit irrelevant.
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Old 24-11-2012, 12:13
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Got the recipe then?
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Old 24-11-2012, 12:55
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Got the recipe then?
From Super Scrimpers

Ingredients:

4 pints of milk

Salt and any flavourings, such as chopped herbs (chives are good, for example)

Vinegar or lemon/lime juice(they used lemon on the show)

Butter (if you want spreadable cream cheese)

Method:

-Warm milk to hand hot before removing from heat

-Add vinegar or lemon/lime juice and stir gently. The curds should form as the whey separates from the cheese.

-Drain off whey and save.

-For cream cheese mix in a little butter plus salt and any herbs. Whisk until creamy. This creamy cheese can be added to sauces or used for sandwiches.

-For Cottage cheese drain fully in a sieve and add salt before adding herbs if wanted
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Old 24-11-2012, 13:09
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I love cottage cheese, but can't stand the lighter choices, and that seems to be all that's on offer in the supermarkets now. Not everyone wants to eat low fat stuff!
I got some in Co-op.
I'm sure M&S do full-fat (i.e normal) cottage cheese.
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Old 24-11-2012, 17:18
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Thanks WelshLad, that's the answer I was wanting, very helpful
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Old 24-11-2012, 17:22
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Tesco sell Lowicz Cottage Cheese 150G

Natural Cottage Cheese essential Waitrose 300g

Both 6 percent fat.
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Old 24-11-2012, 17:28
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I think it was the one of the first things taught in primary school.cooking lessons and with the whey we made junket. Although they may have been two seperate lessons merged in my memory. I wonder if they still teach anything like this now or if it has become a bit irrelevant.
I am not sure what people are taught at schools these days. Everyone wants to buy stuff when it is often cheaper and easier to make your own.
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Old 24-11-2012, 18:36
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I am not sure what people are taught at schools these days. Everyone wants to buy stuff when it is often cheaper and easier to make your own.
Fair enough, but your response to nearly everyone on here is to tell them (rather unhelpfully) to make their own.

If the OP wanted to make their own they would post "How do I make cottage cheese?"

I know you will come back saying it's very easy / quick / cheap to make many things at home, and that's true.
I love cooking, but I really wouldn't want to spend time heating milk, separating curds, and adding other ingredients.
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Old 24-11-2012, 18:52
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Fair enough, but your response to nearly everyone on here is to tell them (rather unhelpfully) to make their own.

If the OP wanted to make their own they would post "How do I make cottage cheese?"

I know you will come back saying it's very easy / quick / cheap to make many things at home, and that's true.
I love cooking, but I really wouldn't want to spend time heating milk, separating curds, and adding other ingredients.
I often feel that people have no idea that they can make it at home and that it does not take that long to do so.

I also went to school where everything was home made and we had a great deal of enjoyment learning how to make things for yourself such as food, clothes and other articles which people needlessly buy.
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Old 24-11-2012, 22:59
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I often feel that people have no idea that they can make it at home and that it does not take that long to do so.

I also went to school where everything was home made and we had a great deal of enjoyment learning how to make things for yourself such as food, clothes and other articles which people needlessly buy.
Well that's great, and it's a shame more people don't have such practical experience, however most people, even those with experience, don't do it all the time.

I can make pastry very well, and a stock, and roast some chicken, and prepare a gravy, but that doesn't mean that every time I want a chicken pie I'm going to go to the faff. Sometimes I will, when I have time and want to be creative, but sometimes I will get one in M&S or from the local butcher (who makes pies) because of the convenience, and the non-existence of washing-up afterwards.
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Old 25-11-2012, 10:29
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I agree with Welsh-Lad. The days when I made nearly everything myself are very long gone, all I wanted to know was where I could buy some full-fat cottage cheese, not be told how easy it is to make it.
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Old 25-11-2012, 10:33
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I am not sure what people are taught at schools these days. Everyone wants to buy stuff when it is often cheaper and easier to make your own.
Mantey?
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Old 25-11-2012, 15:18
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I agree with Welsh-Lad. The days when I made nearly everything myself are very long gone, all I wanted to know was where I could buy some full-fat cottage cheese, not be told how easy it is to make it.
To be fair, you're in Cornwall, so if you are having trouble getting hold of a product in your area, then it isn't much use someone coming along from the Midlands, for example, and saying "Our local TESCO do it". Supermarkets sell what people demand locally, you can't get every single product TESCO sells in one store.

As you may not have been aware how easy it is to make cottage cheese, stud's comment could have put you in a new and preferable direction. He doesn't deserve to be berated for his post.

Mind you, Food and Drink should probably be renamed Fast Food and Soda, as the last thing most people here seem interested in is actually cooking anything themselves, they are all so busy occupied on threads about Walker's Crisps and Diet coke.
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Old 25-11-2012, 17:23
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OP Have you tried Longley Farm cottage cheese? (Normal not fat free obv). They sell it in Morrisons and Asda at least but its a northern brand so might not be available in the south?

6% and the nicest one I've tasted.
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Old 25-11-2012, 18:42
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I often feel that people have no idea that they can make it at home and that it does not take that long to do so.

I also went to school where everything was home made and we had a great deal of enjoyment learning how to make things for yourself such as food, clothes and other articles which people needlessly buy.
I remember making cheese at school; These days, however, there's a real problem with 99% of all store-bought milk being homogenised, which kinda buggers up the cheese. Online wisdom suggests using skimmed/semi skimmed milk and adding the fat back into the milk.
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Old 26-11-2012, 10:01
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OP Have you tried Longley Farm cottage cheese? (Normal not fat free obv). They sell it in Morrisons and Asda at least but its a northern brand so might not be available in the south?

6% and the nicest one I've tasted.
omg I had forgotten that one! I very rarely go to Morrisons and never Asda as both are a really long way away from me out here in the sticks. Tesco and Waitrose are the nearest and I usually shop there. But I did get the Langley Farm one from Morrisons ages ago. I can't get out of the house at the moment due to floods everywhere down here, but as soon as I can I'm off to Morrisons. Thanks for the tip. Edit: Just noticed this is your first post GambaAndCava - Welcome !
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Old 26-11-2012, 13:12
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Brings back memories.
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Old 27-11-2012, 01:19
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My Dad eats loads of cottage cheese he always buys his in Asda and sometimes Lidl
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Old 27-11-2012, 08:26
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"don't patronize people with stupid 'make your own, it's so much more easy/healthy/cheap' posts" should be a standing rule on this forum.
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Old 27-11-2012, 08:41
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"don't patronize people with stupid 'make your own, it's so much more easy/healthy/cheap' posts" should be a standing rule on this forum.
It is saving people money. In times of austerity, people need to learn that the best things are made more cheaply in the home and give you a lot of satisfaction and pleasure making it.

Why give more money to the multi nationals than you really need to?
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Old 27-11-2012, 13:03
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It is saving people money. In times of austerity, people need to learn that the best things are made more cheaply in the home and give you a lot of satisfaction and pleasure making it.

Why give more money to the multi nationals than you really need to?
That is a separate argument. At no point did anyone ask how they could make it, they wanted to know where to BUY it.
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Old 27-11-2012, 17:29
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Why give more money to the multi nationals than you really need to?
Where do you buy the milk to make this cheese with, then?
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Old 27-11-2012, 18:00
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It is saving people money. In times of austerity, people need to learn that the best things are made more cheaply in the home and give you a lot of satisfaction and pleasure making it.

Why give more money to the multi nationals than you really need to?
You're such a sad WUM it's unbelievable. How long can you go on playing this character?
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