Polish Cottage Cheese Cake Recipe

In a large bowl combine the cottage cheese with the eggs butter and vanilla.

Polish cottage cheese cake recipe. This recipe has to be at least 70 years old or older. Add the dry mixture and blend well. Place the cottage cheese in a sieve and drain. This was my aunt blanche s recipe.

Save approximately 2 tablespoons of crumb mixture to sprinkle over top of cake. They say the way i make it the cheese it gritty but the cheese i bought in poland was also gritty. I am of polish ancestry both parents were polish and this is the recipe i came across recently that seems to be like the cheesecake we had at easter when i was a child. This coffee cake is moist and delicious.

Grate the rind and add to sugar and lemon juice along with vanilla and cream. The cottage cheese mixture is so wet when it gets poured in that it soaks into the crust and keeps it together so really the butter is not needed. Mix until well blended and smooth. The following note is what drew me to this recipe because the cheesecake i had as a child was very dense and heavy.

This cheese cake was at every family get together during the holiday s the cheese cake has a light and fluffy filling. The resulting american style cheesecake is known simply as philadelphia after the popular store brand of cream cheese. Add salt to the eggs and beat until thick. I do know polish people who only make this by letting milk sit out overnight.

It tastes amazing fresh out of the oven or chilled and even tastes good the next day. The crust was a sort of biscuit type crust. In much of eastern europe cheesecakes are made with dry curd cheese or farmer s cheese. I always ate the cheese and pineapple filling off of it.

I made it even lower in fat by mixing corn syrup with the graham craker crumbs and pressing that into the lightly greased pie plate. He remembered the ingredients and soon my grandma was making it for grandpa and for us. In a small bowl mix the flour salt and sugar. I love this cake.

The cottage cheese pie is an edelman family recipe from europe most likely germany or austria. I blitz it in the food processor to make it smooth if my recipe would be better that way. I decided to update the crust. I didn t think guilt free cheese cake existed.

Run cheese through blender or food processor until just smooth. I tweaked it to modernize it. Grandpa loved this pie as his mother had made it for him. Pour the mixture into the prepared crust and set the cake aside.

But over the past 50 years dry curd cheese is sometimes replaced with cream cheese. I cut the recipe down to 1 3 and baked it in a glass bread pan because i was only cooking breakfast for two and it worked out great. This recipe for traditional polish cheesecake or sernik sehrr neek has a sweet pastry crust and a filling made with quark or farmer s cheese a dry curd cheese known as twaróg tvah rroog in poland. You can use regular sugar as well.