Rennet

Rennet is the stomach of a calf washed, cleaned, and salted thoroughly inside and out, and left in an earthen jar, with a thick coating of salt on it, for three or four days.

The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally Jane 1845

'Rennet's Parochial Antiq. of Ambrosden, &c.p. 148.

Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812

~Rennet tablets (should be pretty cheap) and cheesecloth for cheesemaking (my first batch of mango wine is already brewed and delicious if I do say so myself)

Archive 2009-02-01 Liv 2009

~Rennet tablets (should be pretty cheap) and cheesecloth for cheesemaking (my first batch of mango wine is already brewed and delicious if I do say so myself)

Care packages :) Liv 2009

Rennet is an extract from the fourth stomach of young ruminants, such as cows, goats, and sheep.

Making Farmhouse Cheddar kat 2009

Rennet used to curdle milk often comes from pigs, which, of course is a major no no.

Follow up on the Israeli low-carb study | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2008

Rennet creates a malleable structure of large casein micelles held together by relatively few calcium atoms and hydrophobic bonds, so this structure is readily weakened by heat.

On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

Rennet creates a malleable structure of large casein micelles held together by relatively few calcium atoms and hydrophobic bonds, so this structure is readily weakened by heat.

On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

Rennet forms in the hare because it feeds on herbage that has juice like that of the fig; for juice of this kind coagulates the milk in the stomach of the sucklings.

On the Parts of Animals 2002

The fig-juice is first squeezed out into wool; the wool is then washed and rinsed, and the rinsing put into a little milk, and if this be mixed with other milk it curdles Rennet is a kind of milk, for it is found in the stomach of the animal while it is yet suckling.

The History of Animals 2002