# What was this stuff I used to eat?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 28, 2006, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-stuff-i-used-to-eat/346468 "2006-02-28T16:08:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![melondeca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@melondeca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melondeca)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-stuff-i-used-to-eat/346468/1 "2006-02-28T16:08:37Z")

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My great grandmother was a wonderful cook and she introduced me to all kinds of great food such as lox, tabouleh, dolmas and (my personal favorite) kibbi nayye.

She also made some sort of cheese. I don’t remember what it was called and I only vaguely remember what was in it but I figured if anyone could help me out it would be a doper.

I seem to recall her taking cottage cheese (?) and mixing it with just a few ingredients then pressing it through a cheese cloth. She would end up with a round about 1 1/2 inces thick. It was soft and creamy with no visible spices.

Does anyone know what this is called?

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**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-stuff-i-used-to-eat/346468/2 "2006-02-28T16:34:17Z")

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Could it be this?

> **[Yogurt Cheese - 'Labanee', in Arabic Recipe - Food.com](https://www.food.com/recipe/yogurt-cheese-labanee-in-arabic-66860)**
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> This recipe provides a great non-fat replacement for sour cream or cream cheese. It will easily keep for a couple of weeks in the refrigerator. We usually make a big batch and use it for a lot of different things, topping for baked potatoes along...

It uses yogurt rather than cottage cheese, but I don’t see why you couldn’t use either one.

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**Author:** ![melondeca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@melondeca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melondeca)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-stuff-i-used-to-eat/346468/3 "2006-02-28T16:51:45Z")

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> [@cher3](#):
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> Could it be this?
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> [Yogurt Cheese - 'Labanee', in Arabic Recipe - Food.com](http://www.recipezaar.com/66860)
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> It uses yogurt rather than cottage cheese, but I don’t see why you couldn’t use either one.

I will have to try that recipe and see how it turns out. The stuff she made was a little more stiff than cream cheese but I suppose that would come from hanging longer.

Thanks for the recipe.