Rennet Custard, or Junket

Ingredients

• One junket tablet
• one quart of milk
• about one tablespoonful or less
• a half-cup of sugar
• sugar and flavoring to taste

Method

1. 1

   Dissolve the tablet in a very little water.

2. 2

   Heat the milk until just blood-warm, dissolve the sugar in the warm milk, then stir in the dissolved junket tablet, add the flavoring, stir well, and pour the mixture into the dishes in which it is to be served.

3. 3

   Let it stand in a warm place until it is set, then place it on ice or in the refrigerator until chilled.

4. 4

   Serve with a spoonful of strawberry or other preserve on top, and pile whipped cream over this.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Principles of food preparation (1914) by Mary Davoren Molony Chambers, page 44. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Rennet Custard, or Junket Ingredients. Junket tablets, milk, water, sugar, flavoring. Proportions. One junket tablet to one quart of milk. Water enough to dissolve the tablet, about one table- spoonful or less, sugar and flavoring to taste — a half- cup of sugar

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