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Bland soft white cheese made from the curds of skim milk - called also Dutch cheese, pot cheese

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  • Coconut and Lime: Rachel chooses one favorite original recipe for each month of the year, including one with the very intriguing name "smearcase".
  • The P's take us from pandowdy to pompey to pudjicky; the Q's offer qualmish, quick start, and quiddle; in R we find ramstugious, redd up, robin snow, and rumpelkammer; and S...
  • One finds also here and there a word from the “Pennsylvania Dutch,” such as “waumus” for a loose jacket, from the German wamms, a doublet, and “smearcase” for cottage...
  • Then when mother had put a nice clean valance, freshly starched and ruffled, around the big four-poster bed in the sitting-room, Will would daub it up with smearcase,...
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