junkets

 This is not a political rant.  :-)

On a local radio gardening program (2GB here in Sydney) a caller asked
was there a home-grown substitute for setting milk when making cottage
cheese. (This need has been forced on us because most of the two major
supermarket-chain stores have removed junket tablets from their shelves;
not a profitable line.)

Another caller recounted how, in times of shortage during the war, her
mother would stir the warming milk with a twig from their fig tree
(edible figs) and this would cause the milk to set (albeit not smoothly).
The chosen twig was about the thickness of a finger and was first
prepared by having its bark peeled off.

Anyone have other plant-based suggestions?
--
John Savage                   (my news address is not valid for email)

 
Here's a pretty comprehensive list:
http://www.pfaf.org/database/search_use.php?K []=Curdling%20agent

 
Indeed an interesting list. I'd welcome suggestions for a substitute for
rennet in making junket, too. This involves setting the milk, rather than
just making it curdle. (I can use pineapple cordial base to make milk
curdle, but it won't turn it into a junket.)
--
John Savage                   (my news address is not valid for email)

 `Why are junket tablets not in the shops these day?  Hadn't heard of that
one.

Katherine

This need has been forced on us because most of the two major

 

I can buy junket tablets here but then I live in the country.  The only
problem is that they are flavoured and I havne't seem the unflavoured ones
for some years now (I haven't looked either though)