Rennet? Junket?

[NotQuiteCockney]

I bought vegetarian rennet the other day (not really sure why) and have found a recipe for junket on the box. Is it worth making? Can I put other flavours in it, so it's not just weirdo solid sweet cheese?

Think it will be weirdo sweet cheese whatever, but my Nan swears by nutmeg. Mum made it for her using vege rennet and it didn't set at all well. 'Fraid the 'real' stuff works better...

Yeah, mine didn't set at all.

But I misread packet, thought I could put it in the fridge, then found I couldn't right after putting rennet in. Only I wasn't happy leaving it out all night, so put it in the fridge soon after. Last I checked it was pretty loose still ... ugh.

junket is worse than blancmange
don't do it
milk jelly or a pannacotta type set cream vastly preferable IMO

Ah, see, but none of these foods have the 'they made me eat it at school' associations they do for you lot. (e.g. I quite like rice pudding)

How are those thickened? Gelatine? My experiments with vegetarian gelatine have been ... bad. Might work better with milk, though, less acidic. (Yes, I use real gelatine, too, and have nothing against non-vegetarian rennet, but it limits my options for where I can serve the result.)

(ooh, I bought a dress today! Two really, but one is v casual!)

Junket generally comes out set fairly loose and fragile, and the milk has to be just the right temperature for the rennet to work. I used to make it from time to time when I was still living at home. It's nothing like cheese! More like blancmange IIRC but more delicate.

I love those 'school dinner' puddings - but then I never had them at school! Except once, when we were served tapioca pudding (for the one and only time I recall ever getting it at school) directly after a biology lesson when we had been handling frog spawn!

yes, milk jelly and pannacotta usually use gelatine I'm afraid (in fact milk jelly is a complete cheat and just uses packet jelly).

Blancmange uses cornflour though - like a really thick custard (unless you're Delia who cheats and does use gelatine).

Other option I guess is a creme caramel-type custard set with eggs.

(and hurrah for dresses!)

I think I might make cheese, instead.

(I got a nice one from Oasis, actually one someone on here had pointed out as part of my search. And I went into bazillions of shops, but only bought for me from Oasis, H+M and Topshop. Is there anywhere more upmarket that makes clothes like H+M and Topshop, but better quality?)

NQC, have you tried Monsoon, especially during sales?

I tried Monsoon. Can't stand it. Too froofy. I like some of the prints, but the clothes generally annoy me.

(I spend a lot of time on my bike, so I need sportyish clothes, really.)

try red herring in debenhams or french connection do a few nice bits if all else fails go to primark cheap so if poor quality its not so bad!! leaf gelatine works for me everytime.