schmierkase

Put half a pound of ordinary schmierkase into a bowl, rub it perfectly smooth; add, a teaspoonful at a time, four tablespoonfuls of thick cream, two tablespoonfuls of melted butter, half a teaspoonful of salt, and 50a saltspoonful of pepper.

Babies smelling of camomile tea, cologne water, wet laundry, dog soap, Schmierkase.

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 cheese, from the German schmierkäse.

Schmierkäse German cottage cheese that becomes smearcase in America.

Smearcase Old English corruption of German Schmierkäse, long used in America for cottage cheese.