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- From: cjackson@adobe.com (Curtis Jackson)
- Newsgroups: ba.food
- Subject: Re: Culture for cheese.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.174059.23418@adobe.com>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 17:40:59 GMT
- References: <92364.181330RAJA@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
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- In article <92364.181330RAJA@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> RAJA@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU writes:
- }A question a vegetarian friend asked me recently was about the cultures used
- }to make cheese. Is it made from extracts from intestines of calves? I would
- }appreciate an answer from the cognoscenti.
-
- Most cheese is indeed made with extracts from or pieces of dried
- newborn calf stomach soaked in brine. The substance is rennin (also
- known commonly as rennet, which is perhaps the useful derivative of
- rennin). Your vegetarian friend can get rennet-less cheese at Bread
- of Life and other health food groceries. Bread of Life has "Rennet-Less"
- stickers on their cheese to advertise the fact. There is no (IMHO)
- degradation to quality; my wife and I buy and eat/cook with rennet-less
- cheese as a rule. The only downside is an appalling lack of selection;
- hopefully this and many other downsides to non-mainstream foods will
- lessen as economies of scale kick in.
-
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