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Show COTTAGE CHEESE HIGHLY NUTRITIOUS AM) PALATABJ.E Cottage cheese is htgli In nutritive value, containing all the constituents of milk except the cream. Like milk it is a source of protein, which is used to build and repatr body tissue. tis-sue. Physicians often find a milk diet useful in treating the sick. In many of these cases it may be possible to substitute cottage cheese, with added cream or butter if desired, for part or all of the milk. Thus a pleasing variety is introduced and the bulk is lessened. There is an abundance of skim milk, the material from which cottage cot-tage cheese is made. It is used extensively ex-tensively for feeding animals; every one knows that it is good for calves, pigs, and chickens, nnd that they make their best growth when it is abundant in the ration. The fact that skim milk can supply a rich and a nourishing food fot- tne family table has not been so fully recognized. Cottage cheese is in fact a food that, served either alone or in combination, com-bination, may form an important par of the diet. U. S. Department of Agriculture. |
