Cheese Kuchen Grandma Rothacker 1962 (Cheese Pie)

Cheese Kuchen Grandma Rothacker 1962 (Cheese Pie)

1 pound cottage cheese (put through strainer)

1 cup canned milk (evaporated milk)

2 tablespoons corn starch

2 tablespoons melted butter

1 cup white sugar

3 whole eggs - beaten slightly

1 teaspoon vanilla

nutmeg for top

Mix sugar and corn starch together, then add strained cottage cheese

and eggs and mix. Last of all add melted butter, milk and vanilla.

Dust top with nutmeg

Bake in pie shell about an hour - 350

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This is from an index card that was Gil's. Margaret typed out

all of Grandma Laura Rothacker's recipes in 1962. Dad had given me

their original typed out card many years ago. It's one that he baked

the cheese pies from for many years It looks about 100 years old.

In later years he had copied it off this very tattered card and gave

me the original.

Margaret says that they used ricotta cheese. Sometimes it was half

ricotta and half cottage cheese. The other day she said they used ALL ricotta. I have made the cheese pie using ONLY cottage cheese.

You might have to experiment and see what tastes just right for you.

I have used small curd cottage cheese, but DO NOT USE LOW FAT.

* Note on the name - Grandma Laura must have called it Cheese Kuchen

that is why the name reads as such. Of course to US it's... CHEESE PIE.

* The recipe says mix - It means mix with a mixer, not by hand.

It's been many years since I made it, and I am thinking this recipe will

turn out 2 cheese pies, but I am not certain. Dad never used a deep pie

dish.

Deb Estep

11-25-2009

EDIT - Saturday April 3, 2021 - Day before Easter.
I'm making cheese pies for the kids and I wanted to add that
Grandma Laura Rothacker made cheese pies (Kuchen) long before 1962.
She died in June of 1962 and her son Gil Rothacker and his wife
Margaret Rothacker transcribed all of her recipes and dated them 1962.
Gil was born in 1930.  He recalled his mother making cheese pies
when he was a young child living in Cleveland Ohio.  

ALSO......... this is the 1st time that I ever strained the cottage cheese,
I never understood why, but it's to dry out the cottage cheese. 
Today, I used 2 - 15 ounce containers of ricotta cheese, and the rest
strained cottage cheese to make up the amount of cheese that was needed
to make a triple recipe of this recipe above. 
I bought the cottage cheese at Ruler Foods here in Illinois.  Ruler is a subsidiary of Kroger grocery.  I used Kroger cottage cheese.  Mom Estep, Mary Louise Estep...
AKA Nanny LOVED Kroger cottage cheese.   It's like she is in on my Grandma Rothacker's recipe.   When Nanny moved up to NE Ohio in late 2014, Kerri Estep
would bring her Kroger cottage cheese.  Kerri would pack it on ice so it stay
good on the drive up from Kettering Ohio.  
Our LOVED ones might be gone, but they live on in the recipes. 
Love .... Mom .... aka ... Debra Estep. 

(PHOTOS from 2009)