For recipes of that era, this is pretty tame. The advent of at-home refrigeration without ice really made people crazy for a little bit.
I do love that following the instructions in this recipe will not get you the cake in the picture though.
Edit: ah nevermind, you let the mixture pre-set, so it probably will allow for layering.
Ngl, that seems like it would be great.
Lemon and cream cheese go well together, as to strawberries and cream cheese, and lemons and strawberries. With the cream cheese being cut a good bit by the other ingredients, it wouldn’t overwhelm the fruits.
Mouth feel could be a little strange with the cottage cheese in there, but it could also be unnoticeable, depending on how it all sets.
Not gonna try it any time soon, but if I was visiting someone and they offered it, I’d be eager to try it
Alton Brown just did a video on cottage cheese where he talked about how it used to be used for the things we use cream cheese for now (cream cheese is actually a relatively modern invention), including cheesecake.
Yeah! I caught that episode, but didn’t connect it until you brought it up. Dang, that makes me more confident this concoction would be really good
It’s easy to miss, but the recipe also calls for both sieving and beating the cottage cheese which would result in a much smoother texture.
Am I supposed to be laughing? Because I actually want some.
I specifically want my grandma to make it because she probably knows what those weird stonehenge bits are. And she loves recipes from ads.
The “stonehenge bits” are ladyfingers, a kind of cookie.
The gateway to tiramisu
They are somewhat cake-like. Somewhere between cake and cookie
Well, no it’s just a vintage ad.
Looks pretty tasty, but y’know. Its an ad.
Cheesecake combined with tiramisu 😮🤤
Strawberry Cheese Treat
Ingredients
1 pkg. (3-oz.) lemon-flavored gelatin1 cup water
1-lb. cottage cheese
½ lb. cream cheese
24 lady fingers, split (18 for lining, 6 kept in reserve)
1 cup heavy cream
1 ½ cups Ann Page Strawberry Preserves (divided into ½ cup and 1 cup portions)
Instructions
Prepare the Gelatin: Dissolve the 3-oz. package of lemon-flavored gelatin in 1 cup of water. Allow it to cool.Blend the Cheeses: Sieve the 1-lb. of cottage cheese into a bowl. Beat in the ½ lb. of cream cheese and the cooled gelatin. Chill the mixture until it is slightly thickened.
Prepare the Pan: Line a 9” spring-form pan with 18 split lady fingers. Keep the remaining 6 split lady fingers in reserve.
Whip and Fold: Whip 1 cup of heavy cream, then fold it into the thickened cheese mixture.
Layer the Dessert:
Pour half of the cheese mix into the lined pan.
Cover the layer with the remaining 6 split lady fingers.
Spoon ½ cup of Strawberry Preserves over the lady fingers.
Top with the remaining cheese filling.
Chill and Serve: Chill the dessert for 3 hours. Remove the side of the pan and spoon the remaining 1 cup of Preserves on top of the dessert before serving.
Yield: Serves 8 to 12.
(1) Brick of cream cheese per slice
Those are rookie numbers
I didn’t grow up in the Midwest. :(
What’s the advantage of being bakeless when it takes 3 and a half hours to make anyway?
Also, Americans desperately need to learn about Quark.It was 1961. They had a few minutes.
It’s much harder to fuck up the cooking time / setting / consistency
Quark is a sour equivalent to American cream cheese.
That’s why you add sugar until it stops dissolving.
