Lorraine D. Hebler

Cottage Cheese Pie

By Lorraine

 
Recipe for Cottage Cheese Pie from grandmother's vintage cookbook, The New American Cook Book with over 4000 recipes, menu planning and entertaining tips.
I searched through all my cookbooks looking for a Cottage Cheese Pie recipe. It isn’t a well known dessert these days and even my Betty Crocker cookbook from the mid-seventies didn’t have it. Then I remembered a cookbook that belonged to my grandmother.

 

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I didn’t get to know my grandmother. She died 6 years before I was born. My mom gave me the cookbook and I only glanced through the pages thinking the recipes and techniques were outdated. The cookbook sat on a shelf for a long time.
 
 
Recipe for Cottage Cheese Pie from grandmother's vintage cookbook, The New American Cook Book with over 4000 recipes, menu planning and entertaining tips.
Now, leafing through the pages of The New American Cook Book, I am impressed by the thorough content and overall completeness this volume holds. In addition to almost 4000 recipes covering all the usual categories there are also sections on Liquors, Cocktails, Wines, The efficient Kitchen, Design and Equipment for the Kitchen, Menu Planning for Health and Pleasure, Menus for Entertaining, Carving, Setting the Table, and Herbs and Spices.
 
 
The Menu Planning for Health and Pleasure section is so informative. I love the opening paragraphs of this chapter:
 
 
The clever homemaker knows that her meals do more for her family than satisfy hunger and please tastes. She has full understanding that the bodies of all members of her family are composed of many chemicals, combined together in such a manner as to form skin, blood, muscles, bones, hair and all of the other component parts of the human frame.
   
She realizes that each of those she loves so well are constantly exhausting those chemicals in many ways – by exertion, by growing, by the normal function of the organs, by digestion, elimination, and respiration, and in other ways. Her task, as the menu planner of the home, is to restore those lost chemicals in the proper quantities and form.
   If she does her task well, she is amply recompensed when she sees healthy complexions, strong teeth, happy smiles, and unimpaired vigor and vitality. Her well-done dietary work also pays huge dividends in the form of smaller doctor’s bills, infrequent colds and minor aliments, and in sunny dispositions. (page 817)
 
 
The New American Cook Book covers the various economic stations. Menus for minimum-cost diets to Entertaining with a Servant’s help.
 
Recipe for Cottage Cheese Pie from grandmother's vintage cookbook, The New American Cook Book with over 4000 recipes, menu planning and entertaining tips.
The cost of this suggested well-rounded diet, according to average city prices in 1941, was about $9.15 a week for a family of four, $4.85 for a family of two, and $15.50 a week for a family of seven.
 
 
This section gave me thought as my own grandmother raised 11 children on a meager income.
Recipe for Cottage Cheese Pie from grandmother's vintage cookbook, The New American Cook Book with over 4000 recipes, menu planning and entertaining tips.
None of our family members had servants or maids but for those who did, these special occasion menus are suggested.
 
 
Many times I have set a special breakfast table when our grandchildren are visiting and I try to make it extra pretty. Seeing this illustration makes me want to do it again. I’ll just have to search for some porringers 😉
 
 
I did a search to learn more about this ASCO brand of products. Here is what Wikipedia says about American Stores Company:
 
 
American Stores Company was an American public corporation and a holding company which ran chains of supermarkets and drugstores in the United States from 1917 through 1999. The company was incorporated in 1917 when The Acme Tea Company merged with four small Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area grocery stores (Childs, George Dunlap, Bell Company and A House That Quality Built) to form American Stores. In the following eight decades, the company would expand to 1,575 food and drugstores in 38 states with $20 billion in annual sales in 1998.
 
 
I did find a recipe for cottage cheese pie in this cookbook. Wondering if this sweet, humble, pie just might have been served at my grandmother’s table.
 
Recipe for Cottage Cheese Pie from grandmother's vintage cookbook, The New American Cook Book with over 4000 recipes, menu planning and entertaining tips.
 

 

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Here is how to make the cottage pie

I can’t say cottage cheese pie is my favorite. This humble pie is unusual but still tasty. The directions a little vague.  If you give it a try, I’d love to hear your thoughts and suggestions…

 

Humble cottage cheese pie is from a vintage cookbook titled, The New American Cook Book, cir. 1941. It is an easy recipe for an earlier era.Prepare a homemade pie crust or use a packaged crust. Place the crust into a pie pan and crimp the edge.

 

Humble cottage cheese pie is from a vintage cookbook titled, The New American Cook Book, cir. 1941. It is an easy recipe for an earlier era.Dissolve cornstarch in cream. Drain the cheese and rub it through a sieve, twice. Add butter.

 

Humble cottage cheese pie is from a vintage cookbook titled, The New American Cook Book, cir. 1941. It is an easy recipe for an earlier era.Separate eggs. Beat yolks until light. Add sugar and beat until thoroughly blended. Add cheese, cream, lemon juice, rind, and cinnamon.

 
 

Humble cottage cheese pie is from a vintage cookbook titled, The New American Cook Book, cir. 1941. It is an easy recipe for an earlier era.Beat egg whites until stiff.

 

Humble cottage cheese pie is from a vintage cookbook titled, The New American Cook Book, cir. 1941. It is an easy recipe for an earlier era.Fold the egg whites into the mixture, reserving just a little of the whites to spread on the crust before filling.

 

Humble cottage cheese pie is from a vintage cookbook titled, The New American Cook Book, cir. 1941. It is an easy recipe for an earlier era.

 
 

Humble cottage cheese pie is from a vintage cookbook titled, The New American Cook Book, cir. 1941. It is an easy recipe for an earlier era.Brush the pastry in the pie plate with reserved egg white. Pour the cheese mixture into the pie crust.

 

Humble cottage cheese pie is from a vintage cookbook titled, The New American Cook Book, cir. 1941. It is an easy recipe for an earlier era.Bake the pie in a moderate oven (350 degrees F.) 25 to 35 minutes.

Sprinkle with powdered sugar and a dash of cinnamon when ready to serve.

 

Cottage Cheese Pie

 
Source: New American Cook Book
 
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Serves 4
 
  • 2 1/2 tsp. cornstarch
  • 1/2 cup cream
  • 1/2 pound cottage cheese
  • 1 Tablespoon melted butter
  • 2 eggs
  • 2/3 cup sugar
  • 2 tsp. lemon juice
  • grated rind of 1/4 lemon
  • 1/4 tsp cinnamon
  • plain pie pastry (9-inch)
  • powdered sugar
 
DIRECTIONS
 
Dissolve cornstarch in cream.
Drain cheese and rub it through a sieve, twice.
Add butter.
Separate eggs.
Beat yolks until light.
Add sugar and beat until thoroughly blended.
Add cheese, cream, lemon juice, rind, and cinnamon.
Beat egg whites stiff and fold in, reserving a little.
Line a greased pie tin with pastry.
Brush with reserved egg white.
Pour in cheese mixture.
Bake in moderate oven (350 degrees F.) 25 to 35 minutes.
Sprinkle with powdered sugar and a dash of cinnamon.
 
 
RECIPE NOTES:
 

I attempted to drain and rub the cottage cheese through a sieve but since the small curd cottage cheese wasn’t very wet there was little to drain. Rubbing it through a sieve was not working and I wasn’t concerned that there would be small chunks of cheese in the finished pie.

 

Knowing I needed my stand mixer to beat the egg whites, I began by whisking the eggs and then sugar in a bowl, but ended up transferring to my stand mixer. When the cheese mixture was mixed, I transferred it to another bowl so I could beat the eggs in the mixer bowl.

 

I did not grease the pie dish before adding the pastry.

 

I loved that the suggested servings for this 9-inch pie is four 😉

 
 
 
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Comments

  1. Saleslady371 says

    Hi, Lorraine,
    This was interesting to me, too, as I like those old fashioned recipes. They are so different that what we always see today. I visited via Mildred and am happy to know you.

    Mary from Pile of Smiles.

    Reply

  2. Lowcarb team member says

    Hi – I've just come across from Mildred's blog.

    Lovely to read your post, and see your photo's.
    I enjoyed it – thank you

    All the best Jan

    Reply

  6. Mildred says

    I currently have a link to your blog post on my blog. I have so many blog followers who love baking, cookbooks, photography etc. and I know they will enjoy your grandma's pie recipe!

    Reply

  7. Mildred says

    What a sweet post, Lorraine. The cookbook is such a treasure. I have never heard of a cottage cheese pie but with the addition of lemon, it sounds wonderful. I like their suggested serving size, too! lol A delightful post.

    Reply

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