Quark a close equivalent to the English word for curd.
I had so many readers write in and tell me that a German Käsekuchen is
made with Quark and not cottage cheese.
A reader Monika sent me her recipe for Quark and wrote this about it...
Both quark, a type of soft, fresh cheese, and rye bread are staples in German homes that are sorely missed when living abroad. In the United States , these favorite foods are either hard to find or just don't taste like "home." Using ingredients common in America. Quark is used for baked potatoes, to spread on bread or a bagel, to make cheesecakes, and it makes a wonderful dip by adding, chopped onion, and bleu cheese, it is also good as a dollop on fruit or in place of anything you would use sour cream on.
Soft cheeses very similar in the sense that they are thickened with an acid as opposed to to harder cheeses that are thickened with rennet, an animal protein. It is very similar to yogurt and sour cream, but quark is drained of much of the whey.
Appel Farms Quark
from the Germandeli.com This is quark sold by the German Deli.com
You won't find this in the ordinary U.S. Grocery store.
A reader Ursula told me that there is a place that is
within about 50 miles of me
that I can get quark.
I had no idea and I found other German deli's and stores
near me when I googled it. You may want to do the same.
You can also
make your own Quark like you can
the Old Fashioned Cottage Cheese
Katrina at the German Corner Store in Keno, Oregon
has a great recipe for quark
and actually sells a Quark Maker
The German American Corner Quarkmaker
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Here is a recipe for a Käsekuchen made with Quark
donated by Anna Werner
MUTTERS KÄSEKUCHEN
(HERR HEINZMANN’S MOTHER’S CHEESECAKE)
Here are some other Quark Recipes
Quark Spread
OR Weisskase
great with bread and crackers
from the International Appetizer Book
****QUICK TIP*****
Christa a fantastic German Cook
who's mom owned a restaurant in Germany.
She found that in America a quick solution is to
mix some sour cream with her cream cheese
to make her Cheese Cake.
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Recipe for
Old Fashioned Cottage Cheese
also called Handkäse or Smearcase
Let's go into my kitchen and make it step by step
with pictures
It is very fun project !!!!
German Caraway Cheese Loaf
Here is a recipe that you can make
from this old fashioned cottage cheese
donated by Olga Drozd
Olga's website
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