The mother of all essential desserts

[salymap]

When I was small my mother told me something revolting about junket. Isn't rennet some nasty part of a sheep?

I can't remember the details but never ate the junket she made for me. A fussy child

[amateur51]

When I was small my mother told me something revolting about junket. Isn't rennet some nasty part of a sheep?

I can't remember the details but never ate the junket she made for me. A fussy child

Anna will be along in a mo' to scare the bejasus out of you, salymap

[Anna]

When I was small my mother told me something revolting about junket. Isn't rennet some nasty part of a sheep?

Yes, as posted above, young unweaned calves killed for their stomach enzymes, Absolutely awful, like the veal trade and bloodless meat that people loved..
I think I should go now

[EdgeleyRob]

Time to stop pussyfooting around.
THIS is the mother of all desserts.

http://www.rivercottage.net/recipes/manchester-tart/

[salymap]

Yes, as posted above, young unweaned calves killed for their stomach enzymes, Absolutely awful, like the veal trade and bloodless meat that people loved..
I think I should go now

That's right Anna, it was so horrible my mind blotted it out. Is it still made- I hope not.?

[amateur51]

That's right Anna, it was so horrible my mind blotted it out. Is it still made- I hope not.?

My message #139 shows that veal rennet is not essential for cheese-making or for junket-making salymap.

[Anna]

Time to stop pussyfooting around.
THIS is the mother of all desserts.

Oh, a Manchester Tart, sweet, sickly and easy?

[Mary Chambers]

I thought frogspawn was Tapioca and Sago was solid?
How do you start a pudding race? Sago

And the winner is the Great Chieftain.....oh dear, a whole new subject there.

My memory is that sago and tapioca were both frogspawn-like, but sago was bigger. I liked both.

[ardcarp]

Pour le dessert, je propose...pudding. It's the 'u' and 'non-u' thing. My favourite afters (ha ha ha ha) is rice pudding....proper, not out of a tin.....sprinkled nutmeg and with a lightly browned skin on top. The odd prune chucked in (cold, at point of serving) can be good too.

[JFLL]

... sago and tapioca .... I liked both.

Me, too, and all these rice-type puddings, which my grandma always called 'milk puddings'. And don't forget semolina. My mother had a school-friend who rejoiced in, or repined at, the name Semele (perhaps her parents were Handel-lovers). Inevitably she was 'Semolina' at school.

[umslopogaas]

Oh, WHY did you do this, remind me of school lunches? I quite enjoyed this evening's dinner, but now feel an urgent need to throw up on the compost heap (always recycle). Junket, sago and semolina? Errch! Basically all ways of forcing milk into reluctant children. I remember being told I wouldnt be allowed to leave the dining room until I'd eaten my junket. Right, I 'll sit here for ever (or until my bladder bursts). Fortunately my teacher's patience ran out before my bladder did and I was sent off to lessons, junket uneaten.

[Nick Armstrong]

Worth a try !

Made me laugh, that, ts

Good answer!

[EdgeleyRob]

Oh, a Manchester Tart, sweet, sickly and easy?

And very yummy.

[Nick Armstrong]

How do you start a pudding race? Sago

[Nick Armstrong]

Oh, a Manchester Tart, sweet, sickly and easy?

I see where you went with that Anna....

Is no one else getting your jokes?*

They are an ornament to my Friday evening, anyway



*I see ERob might have...