I found this
#cookbook from #1985 in the
#littlefreelibrary near my apartment, and have become fascinated by its take on a bag lunch. As such, I have set myself the project of trying as many of the recipes as I am fairly certain will not kill me.
First up, first one in the book: Fruited Cheese Pockets.
The filling is a mix of cottage cheese, shredded Monterey Jack, fruit cocktail, and sliced almonds. It also suggests a small amount of milk, but it seemed appropriately moist without. There is a strange amount of weight put in the fact you are supposed to line your pita with a single leaf of lettuce, although it does not specify what kind. I used a small amount of baby greens that should equate one leaf of iceberg.
The recipe calls for "cream-style" cottage cheese, a phrase I have never seen anywhere else. From what I can sleuth out online, this either means I am supposed to add cream to the cottage cheese, or it's regular cottage cheese because in the 80s you could buy "dry" cottage cheese that was just the curds. I have gone with the latter interpretation.
I followed the instructions to eat half the mixture in one half of a pita (with my single leaf of lettuce). It was better than expected. I am not a huge fan of fruit cocktail and was kind of worried that would overwhelm everything else, but it just had a slight amount of sweetness and the almonds and lettuce give a pleasant texture.
I think I did the recipe a significant favour by eating it right away rather than making the cheese-fruit mix ahead of time, although there is still half in my fridge so hopefully I remember to report back in a couple days with how it holds up.
There's something incredibly of-the-time about it. I can so easily picture it being eaten by women with very fluffy hair while they power through Virginia slims in the office break room.
#baglunch #sandwich #cottagecheese #fruitcocktail #vintagebook #betterhomesandgardens
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