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junket
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Junket \Jun"ket\, v. i. To feast; to banquet; to make an entertainment; -- sometimes applied opprobriously to feasting by public officers at the public cost.
Job's children junketed and feasted together often.
--South.
Junket \Jun"ket\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Junketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Junketing.] To give entertainment to; to feast.
The good woman took my lodgings over my head, and was
in such a hurry to junket her neighbors.
--Walpole.
Junket \Jun"ket\, n. [Formerly also juncate, fr. It. giuncata cream cheese, made in a wicker or rush basket, fr. L. juncus a rush. See 2d Junk, and cf. Juncate.]
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A cheese cake; a sweetmeat; any delicate food.
How Faery Mab the junkets eat.
--Milton.Victuals varied well in taste, And other junkets.
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A feast; an entertainment.
A new jaunt or junket every night.
--Thackeray. A trip made at the expense of an organization of which the traveller is an official, ostensibly to obtain information relevant to one's duties; especially, a trip made by a public official at government expense. The term is sometimes used opprobriously, from a belief that such trips are often taken for private pleasure, and are therefore a waste of public money; as, a congressional junket to a tropical country.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "basket in which fish are caught or carried," from Medieval Latin iuncata "rush basket," perhaps from Latin iuncus "rush." Shifted meaning by 1520s to "feast, banquet," probably via notion of a picnic basket, which led to extended sense of "pleasure trip" (1814), and then to "tour by government official at public expense for no discernable public benefit" (by 1886, American English). Compare Italian cognate giuncata "cream cheese" (originally made in a rush basket), a sense of junket also found in Middle English and preserved lately in dialects.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) A basket. 2 A type of cream cheese, originally made in a rush basket; later, a food made of sweetened curds or rennet. 3 (context obsolete English) A delicacy. 4 A feast or banquet. 5 A pleasure-trip; a journey made for feasting or enjoyment, now especially a trip made ostensibly for business but which entails merrymaking or entertainment. 6 (context gaming English) 20-40 table gaming rooms for which the capacity and limits change daily. Junket rooms are often rented out to private vendors who run tour groups through them and give a portion of the proceeds to the main casino. vb. To go on or attend a junket.
WordNet
n. dessert made of sweetened milk coagulated with rennet
a journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious sashays into the field" [syn: excursion, jaunt, outing, pleasure trip, expedition, sashay]
a trip taken by an official at public expense
v. go on a pleasure trip
Wikipedia
Junket may refer to:
- Junket (dessert), a dessert made of flavoured, sweetened curds
- Junket (company), a brand name of rennet tablets and dessert mixes
- Film promotion, the interviews, advertising, and press releases created to promote a product, especially feature films
- Junket, a name used in the UK for curds made with rennet
Junket is a milk-based dessert, made with sweetened milk and rennet, the digestive enzyme which curdles milk.
To make junket, milk (usually with sugar and vanilla added) is heated to approximately body temperature and the rennet, which has been dissolved in water, is mixed in to cause the milk to set. The dessert is chilled prior to serving. Junket is often served with a sprinkling of grated nutmeg on top. For most of the 20th century in the eastern United States, junket was often a preferred food for ill children, mostly due to its sweetness and ease of digestion.
The same was true in the United Kingdom where, in medieval times, junket had been a food of the nobility made with cream, not milk, and flavoured with rosewater and spices as well as sugar. It started to fall from favour during the Tudor era, being replaced by syllabubs on fashionable banqueting tables and, by the 18th century, had become an everyday food sold in the streets. In the United States, junket is commonly made with a packaged mix of rennet and sweetener from a company eponymously known as Junket.
Dorothy Hartley, in her "Food in England", has a section on rennett followed by a section on 'Junkets, Curds and Whey or Creams'. She cites rum as the commonest flavouring, and clotted cream as the 'usual accompaniment'. She notes that the practice of heating the milk to blood heat is new one; originally, junket was made with milk as it was obtained from the cow, already at blood heat.
The word's etymology is uncertain. It may be related to the Norman jonquette (a kind of cream made with boiled milk, egg yolks, sugar and caramel), or to the Italian giuncata or directly to the medieval Latin juncata. The first recorded use in this sense is in "The boke of nurture, folowyng Englondis gise".
Elizabeth David, in an article in Nova, dated October 1965, asserts that the word "junket" derives from the French jonches, a name for freshly made milk cheese drained in a rush basket." The article can be found in the collection An Omelette and a Glass of Wine originally published in London by R. Hale Ltd, 1984. See the chapter titled "Pleasing Cheeses," Page 206.
Junket is a company that made prepackaged powdered dessert mixes and ingredients for making various curdled, milk-based foods, such as rennet custard, ice cream and rennet tablets. In 1874, Christian Hansen founded Hansen's Laboratorium in Denmark to make rennet extract for the cheesemaking industry. Later in 1878, he opened up operations in the United States. Herkimer County, New York, was chosen for the headquarters, since it was the center of the US cheese industry at that time.
Rennet tablets, commonly referred to as "Junket tablets", are a common source of rennet for home cheesemakers.
The "Junket" brand is now owned and used by Redco Foods.
Usage examples of "junket".
In the past, those dinosaur birds might have flown over Junket, or whatever was there before the town was.
VW and careened onto the two-lane road that ran along the Junket River into Crane Harbor.
How Poppy, in an orange sweater, orange lipstick, tight jeans, high-heeled sandals, and what looked like half the dime store jewelry in Junket, managed to look remotely glamorous at her age was more than Heather could understand.
Whenever it closed down, depending on whether the political outcry was for live trees or lumber, she fiddled with an article about how things got named up and down the river between Junket and Crane Harbor, along the coast between Port James and Slicum Bay.
Her head spun a little: Lydia seemed to straighten high as the moon, as long as the Junket River in her black stockings and heels.
Half the garbage in the Junket dump whirled out, a flood of debris that swooped in the wind and tumbled and soared and snagged, piece by piece, against the thing at the cliff edge.
The truth is, all that laughter up in the lounge has a slightly nervous ring to it, and it is no coincidence that this junket, under discussion for so many years, was put together so swiftly in the past two months.
The junket had spent the afternoon at a ramshackle kraal, actually little more than a shantytown.
Gregg, Tachyon, and the other political members of the junket were in attendance.
For Dad, maybe a members-only junket with high-stakes games and even some exotic companionship.
Jane had learned she was also a gambler, and she needed help for a man she had met on a junket to Las Vegas.
Litsi, the prince currently diverting Danielle to a fifteenth-century junket, was her own nephew.
He accompanied Daddy on some of the foreign junkets and figured out what was going on.
Charis declined it, of courseindeed, nothing would prevail upon her to go junketing abroad under these circumstances!
Congress exempt themselves from the laws they impose on us, pass their midnight pay raises, overdraw their accounts at the House Bank, and then take a junket to some exotic Caribbean island with some lobbyists.