Cottage cheese is a soft, white, lumpy cheese made from sour milk. A soft white cheese made of strained and seasoned curds of skim milk. Also called pot cheese, also called regionally Dutch cheese, smearcase. soft white cheese made from sour milk
A fresh cheese made from whole, part-skimmed, or skimmed pasteurized cow's milk If cottage cheese, which is very moist, is left to drain longer, "pot cheese" is formed Draining longer still produces "farmer cheese "