Making Milk Curds and Whey
The first time I ever heard of curds was in the nursery rhyme “Little Miss Muffet sat on her tuffet, eating her curds and whey.” Curds look similar to cottage cheese, but in the recipes from 1800s cookbooks, they used rennet for milk curds, but not for cottage cheese. Today, you can buy rennet powder and rennet tablets at stores or online. INFORMATION BELOW COMPILED FROM 1800s COOKBOOKS TO PREPARE A RENNET A rennet is the stomach of the calf….