I’m an American living in Eastern Europe and I desperately miss cottage cheese - they just do not sell it here, and I desperately want it. What they do sell is Tvorog, which is seemingly similar to cheese curds but possibly not the same thing.
Apparently, cottage cheese is just cheese curds + heavy cream, so would tvorog + heavy cream end up as the same product?
Curiously enough my distant relative worked on the tech behind mass produced cottage cheese long time ago (IIRC it was for Piątnica, a polish company). I live in Eastern Europe if that helps. Below should help too :)
Twaróg:
Cottage cheese: