A couple of weeks ago Rita Palita challenged me creat a recipe with cottage cheese.
I immediately bought it but in the meanwhile I went to Portugal I couldn't make it on time.
As better late than never and the cottage chees was still waiting for me in the refrigerator I've decided today to create my recipe and contribute to such an original idea!





The fox and the grapes

A fox, almost with hunger dying,
Some grapes on a trellis spying,
To all appearance ripe, clad in
Their tempting russet skin,
Most gladly would have eat them;
But since he could not get them,
So far above his reach the vine—
"They're sour," he said; "such grapes as these,
The dogs may eat them if they please!"
Did he not better than to whine?

La Fontaine fable based on Aesop: Phaedrus, 4. 3.





Cottage tart with pink grapes

Makes 4:

Crust:
100 g sweet plain biscuits
20 g oatmeal
25 g butter, melted

Grind the biscuits and the oatmeal.
Combine with butter.
Press this mixture into the bottom of 12 cms pie pans.
Refrigerate.

Filling:
400 g cottage cheese
100 g sugar
40 g cake flour
zest of 1 lemon
Vanilla
4 egg whites

Pre-heat the oven to 180ºC.
Mash the cheese.
Combine the cheese with the flour and lemon zest.
Whisk the egg whites until firm peaks form and add sugar.
Gently fold the meringue into the previous mixture.
Pour the mixture into the pie pans.
Bake for 30 minutes.
Let it cool down before unmould.

Grape jelly

160 g seedless pink grapes, in halves
80 g sugar
10 ml lemon juice

Bring water and sugar to boil until it reaches 115ºC.
Add the grapes and lemon juice.
Sieve.
Add a gelatin sheet (previously hydrated) for each 125 ml of jelly.

Decorate with grapes and brush the top with jelly.

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