Re: [lace-chat] Junket

[Brenda Paternoster]

Junket is milk that has been curdled/set with rennet - the enzyme from 
a cow/calf's stomach which is used in the making of most cheese.  
(Synthetic rennet is used for vegetarian cheese)

I have two old books with recipes for junket.  They both say add 1 
teaspoon rennet to half pint warm milk and allow to set - takes a few 
hours, probably less in a fridge.  One recipe just says add sugar to 
taste (whilst still warm) then serve with whipped cream.  The other 
says also add 2 teaspoons brandy and a pinch of cinnamon, and serve 
with cream and grated nutmeg.

The Oxford Dictionary says:
1, noun - dish of milk curdled by rennet and sweetened and flavoured; 
feast; official's tour at public expense.
2, verb intransitive - feast, picnic.

Brenda
On Nov 14, 2004, at 7:06 pm, Linda Walton wrote:
Junket?
What's "junket"?
How does it relate to the verb "to junket" - as in "they've all gone 
out
junketing", meaning "merry-making"?

Linda Walton,
(full of curiosity,
in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, U.K.).
But - after all that, does anyone out there still make junket?   I 
loved
it
when I was a child, and made it for my children until they - and my
husband - decided that there was no way they were eating it, as they 
all
loathed it so much!   So - over the past umpteen years, junket has
remained
a memory, as there didn't seem much point in making it just for me ...
Carol - in Suffolk, UK - still thinking of trifles and junket!
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