Junket Tablets

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Hi gobo,

Junket rennet tablets are sold in a little packet as a

dessert/cheesemaking

product. The tablets are made from the part of a calf's stomach that

processes

it's mothers milk. This must be the part of the stomach or intestine

that we

lose during the DS, I would guess.

To use rennet you dissolve a tablet in a bit of warm water and add to

barely

warmed milk (sweetened and flavored if for the dessert). It sets up

and curds,

or becomes firm. This is also the first step to making ANY cheese.

It is the

only thing that gets milk to curd up besides one herb, that I can't

think of

right now, that some vegans insist on using instead of rennet (for

obvious

reasons, LOL). After this firming stage, if one is making cheese, the

curd is

cut carefully onto chunks and then slowly heated to the temp required

for the

type of cheese desired, then it is drained and stirred to make cottage

or pot or

farmer's cheese, and pressed in a mold or formed in a brick or wheel

and aged

for hard cheeses.

If one uses it for lactose intolerance, the trick would be to use the

right

amount. I would imagine that 1/2 to one tablet would do, as the

amount of milk

you use per tablet is 2 cups, if I remember correctly. The idea for

using this

just spontaneously occurred to me the other day, because my mind works

like

that, making quirky associations for no apparent reason. I would have

not ever

mentioned it to anyone else (although I would have tried it on myself

if I ever

get to actually have this surgery,LOL) but I caught a post that Joe

Frost had

meant to send to the Post-Op_Problems list, that appeared here. It

was

regarding help for diarrhea and someone from Australia saying that her

DS nurse

had recommended Junket to her to firm up stool in a more natural way.

Of course

this caught my eye!

Hope this helps clarify,

Kathy in Arlington