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rennet
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"inner membrane of a calf's fourth stomach," c.1400, probably from an unrecorded Old English *rynet , related to gerennan "cause to run together," because it makes milk run or curdle; from Proto-Germanic *rannijanan, causative of *renwanan "to run" (see ...
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.
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.