cook cheese n Also cooked cheese (or käse), kochcase [Calque of Ger Kochkäse] Ger settlement areas, esp in TX and WI Also called boiled cheese n, cup cheese n, pot cheese n
A soft cheese made from sour milk curd which is broken up and usu allowed to ferment, then heated, often with additional ingredients, until it reaches a syrupy consistency.
1890 Philadelphia Inquirer (PA) 25 Nov 2/7 sePA, Residents of Robesonia Made Ill by Eating Cooked Cheese. . . Over fifty persons are at present suffering from eating cheese cooked at a Montgomery county creamery. 1908 U.S. Dept. Ag. Bur. Animal Industry Bulletin 105.16, Cooked [cheese]. . .It is made from fresh curd prepared by breaking up and heating the curd of sour clabbered milk. When cooled sufficiently this curd is placed in a receptacle and allowed to stand for three or four days until it has become colored throughout. It is then put into a kettle over a fire; salt, milk, and usually caraway seed are added, and the whole is stirred vigorously until it becomes of the consistency of thick molasses, or until it strings when a spoon is withdrawn. 1911 Sheboygan Press (WI) [11 Nov 4]/5, [Advt:] Fresh Dairy Products. . . Cottage Cheese Buttermilk Cooked Cheese. 1920 Daily Advocate (Belleville IL) 19 Mar 2/1, [Advt:] Saturday, We Will Close Out On Hand Cheese and Cooked Cheese for the Season. 1925 Cullman Tribune (AL) 30 July [9]/4, [Advt:] Food Sale at Leigebeier’s old Garage Saturday, August 1 Bread, Cook-cheese, Real Doughnuts, . . and other good eats St. Paul’s Ladies’ Aid. 1938 Shiner Gaz. (TX) [24 Nov 5]/2, We are indebted to the Neighborhood Club for a delicious lunch. . . The Club must have a “blue ribbon” recipe for “cook-cheese.” 1950 Mascoutah Herald (IL) 8 Mar 7/5, [Advt:] Cookcheese on Thurs., Fri., Sat. Mueth Dairy. 1950 WELS (The lumpy white cheese . . made from sour milk) 1 Inf, ceWI, [Cottage cheese]—can be made into cook cheese which is like a paste; (Different kinds of home-made cheese) 1 Inf, seWI, Cook cheese; 3 Infs, ce, seWI, Cooked cheese; 1 Inf, ceWI, Cooked käse; [1 Inf, WI, Koch Käse]. 1962 Atwood Vocab. TX 61, Some thirteen informants, all of German extraction, give kochcase, while eight others give the translated form cook-cheese. These two terms designate a different type of homemade cheese, which involves the cooking of the curd. 1968 DARE (Qu. H65, Foreign foods) Inf WI24, Cooked cheese: German [dish] made by cooking cottage cheese. [1971 AmSp 46.178 Chicago IL, Cook-cheese . . In Chicago . . it occurred only once, in the speech of the most authoritative German bilingual in the sample . . , who insisted cook-cheese was the “correct” name for cottage cheese, prepared in the kitchen by hanging a cheese-cloth bag over the sink and involving no cooking.] 1976 Fredericksburg Std. (TX) 19 May 11/3, Refreshments were unique in that the members all brought such food as cook-cheese, butter, bread and sausage.