Crossword clues for rennet
rennet
- Raise money for dairy substance
- Cheese ingredient
- Substance that curdles milk
- Substance curdling milk in cheese-making
- Ruminant animal enzymes
- Need for curdling milk into cheese
- Milk-curdling stuff in a calf's stomach
- Milk curdling compound
- Milk curdling agent
- Ingredient in junket
- Enzyme used for cheesemaking
- Curdling substance
- Cheese-making need
- Cheese-maker's extract
- Milk curdler
- Cheesemaker's supply
- Cheesemaking need
- A substance that curdles milk in making cheese and junket
- Curdling agent
- Calf's stomach membrane
- Calf's stomach lining
- It curdles milk
- Curdler
- Junket ingredient
- Milk-curdling agent
- Substance used to curdle milk
- Note round variety of apple
- Return of banknote, which may be in Leicester, say
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
Rennet \Ren"net\, n. [AS. rinnan, rennan, to run, cf. gerinnan to curdle, coagulate. [root]1
See Run, v.] 1. The inner, or mucous, membrane of the fourth stomach of the calf, or other young ruminant.
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an infusion or preparation of the calf stomach lining, used for coagulating milk. The active principle in this coagulating action is the enzyme rennin. [Written also runnet.]
Cheese rennet. (Bot.) See under Cheese.
Rennet ferment (Physiol. Chem.), the enzyme rennin, present in rennet and in variable quantity in the gastric juice of most animals, which has the power of curdling milk. The enzyme presumably acts by changing the casein of milk from a soluble to an insoluble form.
Rennet stomach (Anat.), the fourth stomach, or abomasum, of ruminants.
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 run (v.)). Compare German rinnen "to run," gerinnen "to curdle."
variety of apple, 1560s, from French reinette, literally "little queen," diminutive of reine "queen," from Latin regina (see Regina).
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
n. a substance that curdles milk in making cheese and junket
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 into solid curds for cheesemaking and liquid whey. In addition to chymosin, rennet contains other important enzymes such as pepsin and a lipase.
Rennet is used in the production of most cheeses. The mammal's digestive system must be accessed to obtain its rennet. Non-animal alternatives for rennet are suitable for consumption by vegetarians.
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.