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A substance that curdles milk in making cheese and junket
Answer for the clue "A substance that curdles milk in making cheese and junket ", 6 letters:
rennet
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rennet \Ren"net\ (r?n"n?t), n. [F. rainette, reinette, perhaps fr. raine a tree frog, L. rana, because it is spotted like this kind of frog. Cf. Ranunculus .] (Bot.) A name of many different kinds of apples. Cf. Reinette . --Mortimer.
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n. a substance that curdles milk in making cheese and junket
Usage examples of rennet.
The medical report indicated that she was dead for less than twenty-four hours, and fingerprints identified her as Marylou Rennet, 27, a prostitute with a record of numerous arrests.
There were arts for avoiding this rennet of hare and suchlike potions.
Ulror tried to find meaning in the swirling pattern of emerging curds as the rennet coagulated the milk, but saw nothing there he could read.
The plant has the property of curdling milk, hence another of its popular names ' Cheese Rennet.
Here you are in our Paestum, warm, fed and rent free, and with a face like cheese rennet.
It is, in fact, made from cows' milk and rennet, an enzyme from the stomachs of goats.
He helped himself to a handful of the packing material which had come around a jar of candied rennet, and snuffled noisily.