When I finally decided that I wanted to make junket, I ended up having to order a pack of tablets from the Junket. Or maybe Americans just outgrew their taste for it. Since mid-century the popularity of Junket has plummeted, probably due to being under a variety of companies that were not all that invested in the product. And believe me, I have looked a lot over the years. Well, at least not in any grocery store I have ever looked in. Some of them, including the Danish desserts, are still available today.
And in addition to the rennet tablets, there was a whole line of flavored and colored desserts, both rennet and not rennet based. In fact, in the recipe booklet from which this recipe comes from has a recipe that says “if required as a medium for administering wine, brandy, or whiskey in sickness as much as four tablespoonfuls may be used.”īy the 1940s junket desserts were so popular that whole events where it was served came to be known as junkets.
Yes, people until not that long ago considered alcohol to be good for the sick. That is, food for ailing people, sometimes as the delivery method for alcohol. People of all ages ate this milk dessert, and it was often used as invalid food. The invention came from a Danish immigrant in New York state named Johan Fredericksen who wanted to expand his rennet business to include not just large-scale cheese manufacturers but the home market as well.Įventually the company changed the name of the tablets to Junket Tablets since that was what people called them anyway. Then, in the late 19th century a new invention targeted to women – rennet tablets – changed the way the dessert was made. Though can certainly still buy animal rennet in liquid form. Today, the tablets contain vegetable rennet so they are vegetarian. It was probably more like a fresh cheese than the custard-like dessert it eventually became.Īt the time, they used liquid animal rennet, which is the same coagulant used in cheesemaking. It turns out though that junkets date back to the Middle Ages.īack then, though, they used cream rather than milk to make this dish, and they did separate the whey from the curds. It was not until relatively recently though that I learned junket was also a dessert made with the tablets of the same name. I first heard about junket tablets, a form of rennet, from a cheesemaking book several years ago, about the same time I first used rennet. Have you ever heard of junket, or junket tablets? Probably not.
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