“It’s Aunt Bessie’s recipe, and it’s a yum yum!” Well, what more is there to say? It’s clearly a good recipe based on this recommendation – and with the amounts of cheese, oleo, and nuts in the recipe, it’s easy to understand why. I imagine these being similar to a savory shortbread, equal parts fat [...]

I’ve heard of smearcase before but I cannot remember where or in what circumstance. Likely, my mother reminisced about it at some point. Smearcase is a soft cheese usually eaten with a spoon or on crackers and is sometimes used to refer to cottage cheese. The term smearcase is based on the German word schmierkase [...]