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Milk curdling agent
Answer for the clue "Milk curdling agent ", 6 letters:
rennet
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ So we have to use junket rennet . ▪ Very often such cheeses are made with a vegetarian rennet and natural sea salt.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. An enzyme used as the first step in making cheese, to curdle the milk and coagulate the casein in it, derived by soaking the fourth stomach of a milk-fed calf in brine. Etymology 2 n. A kind of apple.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a substance that curdles milk in making cheese and junket
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Rennet is a complex of enzymes produced in the stomachs of ruminant mammals . Chymosin , its key component, is a protease enzyme that curdles the casein in milk . This helps young mammals digest their mothers' milk. Rennet can also be used to separate milk ...
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.