Paraguayan Corn Bread

Ingredients

• •All-purpose flour
• •2 medium onions; chopped fine
• •8 tablespoons margarine, divided
• •1/2 pound farmer or cottage cheese
• •1/2 pound Muenster cheese; shredded; coarse
• •2 cups cream-style corn
• •1 teaspoon salt, preferably coarse
• •1 cup milk
• •2 cups cornmeal
• •6 eggs, separated
• •1 pinch ground anise seed (optional)

Directions

1. 1Grease 13 by 9 by 2-inch baking pan and sprinkle with 1 tablespoon flour. Shake to remove excess.
2. 2In skillet, sauté onions in 4 tablespoons margarine. Add farmer cheese; blend thoroughly.
3. 3Add Muenster cheese, onions, corn salt, milk and cornmeal; mix thoroughly.
4. 4Beat egg whites until soft peaks form, then lightly beat yolks separately.
5. 5Combine and stir into cornmeal mixture with anise seed. Turn into prepared baking pan. Bake in preheated 400 degree oven 45 minutes or until a pick inserted in center comes out clean. Serve hot, cut in squares.