pot cheese
- noun
- US
:
queso de granja
- She prepared a delicious spread using pot cheese, herbs, and garlic.
Examples
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Load up on pot cheese and sauerkraut.
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Pot cheese and sauerkraut.
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But right now, it feels like a lump of pot cheese and sauerkraut.
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-Pot cheese and sauerkraut.
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In the recipe, you need to add pot cheese to create a creamy texture.
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For breakfast, I enjoyed a bagel topped with pot cheese and smoked salmon.
Synonyms
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1.0
A solid food made from milk that is pressed and often aged
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1.0
A soft white cheese with small lumps made from milk
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4.0
A mild white cheese made from the curds of soured milk
A mild white cheese made on small farms from the solid part of sour skim milk
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Morphology
The compound 'pot cheese' directly denotes a type of cheese composed of the words 'pot' and 'cheese'; a B1 learner who knows those constituents would readily infer it is a kind of cheese (likely made or kept in a pot). This follows common noun–noun compounding patterns for food names and is therefore transparently understandable without prior exposure.
Etymology
The noun pot cheese may come from home cooks who made fresh cheese in a cooking pot, letting the curds, the solid part of milk, drain there. So the simple image of cheese made in a pot explains why the name means a mild, soft white cheese used as a 'spread' or in cooking.