Curds and whey

Are the contents of your fridge/freezer covered on house insurance?
How upsetting. It did happen to us a couple of times - nearly new freezer as well, but we rescued most of the food in time. At least the freezer was still under warranty.
Could you cook anything or has it all gone off?

Curds and whey 🤔 perhaps you could make cheese?

Mine is only 6 months old. I could only cook a very few items. You forget how difficult is is to be without a fridge in the summer. Even worse, it is going to take 3 weeks before an engineer is able to visit.
I certainly won't be buying anything from that company again.

Even worse, it is going to take 3 weeks before an engineer is able to visit. 😲

No, complain!

Are we allowed to name and shame?

I don't think we are allowed to complain, because there wouldn't be a right of reply available.

I think curds and whey was an old name for junket.

I’ve only had junket once - made with milk still warm from the cow. It was very nice.

Indeed olderme aren’t the curds like cottage cheese?..which I fancy sometimes (Longlea Farm?)
Can’t afford to send a postcard these days 😄
But, what actually is a tuffet as it is not in the dictionary🤗

Curds are the solid parts of milk. Whey is the liquid part. You use curds to make cottage cheese and junket. I would definitely complain, particularly about the long delay

Thank you all.
I always thought a tuffet was like a pouffe .

olderme

Thank you all.
I always thought a tuffet was like a pouffe .

It is.

I can remember, just after the last war, my grandmother making cottage cheese from whole milk that was slightly 'off'. She would let it go completely off, until it was curds and whey, then put it in a muslin bag and hung it ouside from a hook by the kitchen door. The whey just dripped out and into the

It may have been junket. I used to eat it regularly as a child accompanied by clotted cream, nutmeg and soft fruits.

Utterly delicious.

Rennet used to separate the milk, but it was heated with sugar all then left to set.

I think that a tusset was a tusset of grass. I’m sure as children we all sat off grass tussets.

I always thought that a tuffet was a grass covered mound, or perhaps a low seat or footstool.

Lathyrus3

I think curds and whey was an old name for junket.

I’ve only had junket once - made with milk still warm from the cow. It was very nice.

I used to love junket when I was a child, I haven’t seen it for years.

Junket won’t be the same as it needs to be made from unpasteurised very creamy milk.

Rennet can still be purchased though. I think Waitrose sell it.

This I remember has a kid ,a Uncle of mine worked on a local farm in Brackley and he used to bring home the curds and whey , which was given as a sweet with dinner if we had it at nans house.
Mick

MiniMoon

I always thought that a tuffet was a grass covered mound, or perhaps a low seat or footstool.

Yes, just a low grassy mound you could sit on.

Whitewavemark2

Junket won’t be the same as it needs to be made from unpasteurised very creamy milk.

Rennet can still be purchased though. I think Waitrose sell it.

The only time I ever had it, the farmer brought the milk in straight from the cow, all warm and foaming.

What his wife then did to it I don’t know but it really was lovely 😊

Definitions from Oxford Languages · Learn more
noun
1.
a tuft or clump of something.
"grass tuffets"
2.
a footstool or low seat.

Yes makes sense Elrel and it was definitely what my mum called the little patchwork leather thing that I used to sit on as a child int’ 60s😍
And I still don’t like spiders …

Thank you for your suggestions to complain. I did and they are exchanging it for a new one on Monday. Thank goodness.

If you are using sour milk to make any sort of cheese you need to use unpasteurised milk which will contain natural bacteria. Pasteurised milk is free from bacteria and may pick up dangerous bacteria from the air.

I’m just thankful that I was never expected to eat either curds and whey, or junket! School milk was quite bad enough.

YOu can use curds to make cream cheese, wey is only really of any use if you are baking bread or rolls, or feeding pigs!

Miss Muffet belonged to a time when children did eat sour milk - food being too expensive to throw out. Today we eat yohurt, which I found disgusting when it came into fashion, but have become accustomed to.

Tastes change and are, of course, highly individual.

Junket is delicious and so quick and easy to make I have it slightly warm, with a little grated nutmeg and a splash of cream.
There used to be a product to make flavoured junkets called Miss Muffet