1) COTTAGE BALLS

INGREDIENTS:
● 250 gr cottage cheese
● 1 egg
● 5-6 tablespoons of sugar
● 1.5 cups flour
● 1/2 level teaspoon of baking soda
● powdered sugar

COOKING:
Beat the egg with sugar, add cottage cheese and soda. Mix so that there are no curd lumps left. Add flour and knead the dough. Let the dough stand for 15-20 minutes. Then we roll sausages, cut into sticks, roll balls from the sticks (not very large, because when frying they will increase slightly in size)

We dip the first portion of the balls into a saucepan with hot vegetable oil, help them to float with a wooden spoon. It is better to fry over medium heat, allowing them to fry inside and not let them burn out on the outside. Fry until golden brown. We put the finished balls in a colander so that the glass is excess oil, then transfer to a dish and sprinkle with powdered sugar that have already cooled down.

2) CURD PUDDING

INGREDIENTS:
● 500 g cottage cheese
● 150 g of semolina (6-7 tablespoons with a slide)
● 350 ml. milk
● 4 eggs
● 150 g sugar
● vanillin

optional:
● zest of 1 lemon
● 50 g raisins

COOKING:
Pour semolina into cold milk and stir, then cook for about 5 minutes until thick. Cool to thicken the mass. Beat egg yolks with 100 g of sugar, add vanilla and pour into cottage cheese, then beat with a mixer. Add the cooled semolina and beat again, then beat the whites with the remaining 50 g of sugar and add to the dough. Mix and place in a greased baking dish. Bake until browned in an oven preheated to 180 degrees. You can eat it immediately after the pudding has cooled. Very tasty with sour cream.

3) COTTAGE CAKES

INGREDIENTS:
● Cottage cheese – 300 g
● Butter – 200 g
● Eggs – 2 pcs.
● Sugar – 1 cup
● Vanilla sugar – 1 pack
● Baking powder – 1 tsp.
● Flour – 2 cups (glass 200 ml)

COOKING:
1. Beat the eggs with sugar, add melted butter to them (not hot!), rub the cottage cheese through a sieve, vanilla sugar – mix everything well.
2. Combine the baking powder with flour and sift, pour everything into the creamy curd mass, mix well. the dough becomes thick.
3. Divide the dough into molds, filling them by 2/3 of the volume.
4. Bake in a preheated oven to 180 gr., 25-30 minutes. Readiness to check with a wooden skewer. Filled with chocolate on top, you can sprinkle with powdered sugar.

4) CHEESECAKE

INGREDIENTS:
● Wheat flour 1/2 cup
● Cottage cheese 700 g
● Sour cream 150
● Sugar 1 cup
● Milk 0.3 cup – 5 eggs
● Vegetable oil 0.5 cup

COOKING:
1. We process the cottage cheese with a blender, adding sour cream to it – about 100 g. The main thing is to get a smooth mass without grains from the cottage cheese.
2. Divide the eggs into whites and yolks, beat the whites into foam in half a glass of sugar. Add 1/2 cup of flour, 5 remaining yolks and 1/2 cup of odorless vegetable oil to the whipped proteins in succession. Part of the mass – in a form with high walls.
3. Add prepared cottage cheese to the rest of the mass. Посолить массу, добавить 1/2 стакана сахара, 1/3 стакана milk, ванильный сахар. Knead the mass with a mixer and carefully pour into the mold on top of the first layer. The first layer will inevitably rise at the edges.
4. Put in a preheated oven for 40-60 minutes, bake at 180-200. In the process, the cake rises, acquiring a brownish tint. Taking it out of the oven, grease with sour cream mixed with sugar – 50 g of sour cream 2 tablespoons of sugar. Place in the switched off cooling oven.
5. Put fruits and / or berries on the cake – fresh or canned. Pour over their jelly – two cups of syrup, in which fruits were blanched and 1 cup of dissolved gelatin (2 tablespoons of gelatin per 1 cup of water).

5) COTTAGE ROLL WITH POPPIES

INGREDIENTS:
● flour 250 g
● cottage cheese 125 g
● sugar 50 g
● pinch of salt.
● vegetable oil 75 ml.
● milk 75 ml.
● baking powder 2 tsp.

Filling:
● poppy 70 – 100 g
● a handful of raisins
● sugar 100-150 g
● milk 2/3 tbsp.
● egg 1 pc.

COOKING:
1. Pour poppy into a ladle and rinse with water from debris.
2. Drain the water to the maximum and fill it with milk. 3. Put on fire and cook
4. Steam the raisins with boiling water.
5. Варим мак до полного впитывания milk.
6. Add sugar and raisins (without water)
7. Sift flour with baking powder, salt.
8. Add butter, milk, cottage cheese, sugar and knead the dough.
9. You can do it with your hands, but it’s more convenient with a mixer (nozzles hooks). The dough should come together and be sticky.
10. Sprinkle the table with flour and roll out the dough into a layer measuring 30 by 20 cm. Cut lengthwise into 2 parts. We spread the poppy seed filling leaving 2 cm on all sides.
11. We pinch the edges of the rolls. We twist them and put them in a lined cake pan or baking sheet. Lubricate with egg (milk).
12. Bake at 180 degrees about 45 minutes.
13. We check readiness with a toothpick, it should be dry. Cool on a wire rack and cut.