rennet

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɹɛnɪt/

Noun

rennet

1. 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.

Translations

• French: présure
• German: Lab
• Italian: caglio, presame
• Portuguese: coalho
• Russian: ре́ннин
• Spanish: cuajo

Noun

rennet (plural rennets)

1. Alternative form of reinette.

   Synonyms: renneting

   • 2014, Jeannie Marshall, The Lost Art of Feeding Kids: What Italy Taught Me about Why Children Need Real Food, Beacon Press (ISBN 9780807033005), page ? ↗:

     The choice of treats is between a sweet mandarin orange and maybe a lumpy rennet apple. Nothing is packaged; there is only food here in this market, most of it requiring washing and chopping and cooking.

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