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.
Natural Cottage Cheese. 1  1-gallon milk. 2  Juice of 2 lemons (about Â½ cup) 3  6 tablespoons cream (optional)  Heat milk to 86Â°F slowly and add the juice of two lemons, or about Â½ 1  cup. Cool until it can be handled.  Drain, rinse and salt if desired, and add 1  cream. Use fresh as you would any cottage cheese.