You've seen the neat little drawings of the placenta -- your baby's life support system in utero -- but you'd... You've seen the neat little drawings of the placenta -- your baby's life support system in utero -- but you'd be right to realize that those diagrams don't look all that much like the real thing.ou've seen the neat little drawings of the placenta -- your baby's life support system in utero -- but you'd be right to realize that those diagrams don't look all that much like the real thing.
Besides being higher in calcium than cottage cheese, ricotta cheese is also lower in sodium, with 123 milligrams per 1/2 cup compared with 420 milligrams in a serving of cottage cheese. Use ricotta cheese as a substitute for cottage cheese in lasagna or spinach pie.
I've used cottage cheese and it makes the cake slightly more crumbly. To compact it you can add some fresh cream. Sour cream also makes a wonderful addition, and marries well with some lemon zest.p vote 3 down vote. ABSOLUTELY you can substitute cottage cheese (even fat free) for cream cheese in a cheesecake recipe. Small curd seems to work best--possibly because a bit more of the moisture is retained in the product after draining.