Junket (dessert) in the 1960s. Today, it is one of many "legacy" brands still in production, in this case, where there is no true competitor making rennet custard. The brand is owned and made by Redco Foods of Little Falls, New York, a company more famous for its tea products under its other "legacy" brands Red Rose and Salada, all owned by Düsseldorf, Germany-based Teekanne, GmbH. Junket (dessert) Junket is a milk-based dessert, made with sweetened milk and rennet, the digestive enzyme that curdles milk. 'Curds and Whey' is an archaic term for junket. To make junket, milk (usually with sugar and
Cheesemaking added to cause the casein to precipitate. Rennet contains the enzyme chymosin which converts κ-casein to para-κ-caseinate (the main component of cheese curd, which is a salt of one fragment of the casein) and glycomacropeptide, which is lost in the cheese whey. As the curd is formed, milk fat is trapped in a casein matrix. After adding the rennet, the cheese milk is left to form curds over a period of time. Once the cheese curd is judged to be ready, the cheese whey must be released. As with many foods the presence of water and the bacteria in it