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
Rennet "Iliad" that the Greeks used an extract of fig juice to coagulate milk. Other examples include several species of Galium, dried caper leaves, nettles, thistles, mallow, and ground ivy. Enzymes from thistle or "Cynara" are used in some traditional cheese production in the Mediterranean. Phytic acid, derived from unfermented soybeans, or fermentation-produced chymosin (FPC) may also be used. Vegetable rennet might be used in the production of kosher and halal cheeses, but nearly all kosher cheeses are produced with either microbial rennet or FPC. Commercial so-called vegetable rennets usually contain an extract from the mold "Rhizomucor miehei". Some molds such