Rennet vs Junket - What's the difference?
rennet | junket |
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.
(obsolete) A basket.
A type of cream cheese, originally made in a rush basket; later, a food made of sweetened curds or rennet.
* 1818 , John Keats, "Where be ye going, you Devon maid?":
(obsolete) A delicacy.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.4:
A feast or banquet.
* 1790 , Ambrose Philips, The free-thinker , Vol III. No 124., page 95
A pleasure-trip; a journey made for feasting or enjoyment, now especially a trip made ostensibly for business but which entails merrymaking or entertainment.
(gaming) 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.
To go on or attend a junket.
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As nouns the difference between rennet and junket
is that rennet is 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 or rennet can be a kind of apple while junket is (obsolete) a basket.As a verb junket is
to go on or attend a junket.rennet
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(wikipedia rennet)Derived terms
* renninEtymology 2
(etyl) reinetteSynonyms
* rennetingAnagrams
* ----junket
English
Noun
(en noun)- I love your meads, and I love your flowers, / And I love your junkets mainly [...].
- Goe streight, and take with thee to witnesse it / Sixe of thy fellowes of the best array, / And beare with you both wine and juncates fit, / And bid him eate […].
- Conversation is the natural Junket of the Mind ; and most Men have an Appetite to it, once in the day at least [...].
Verb
- Job's children junketed and feasted together often.