Junket (Mrs. Hiddingh's Recipe)

Ingredients

• 1 quart Milk
• 1 oz White Sugar
• 1 tablespoonful Rennet
• 1 tablespoonful Vanderhum
• 0.5 pint Cream
• Sugar

Instructions

1. Take new milk and sweeten it with one ounce of sugar.
2. Heat the sweetened milk to blood heat.
3. Flavour the milk with a tablespoonful of Vanderhum or rum.
4. Add one tablespoonful of rennet and stir well.
5. Pour the mixture into a glass dish.
6. Set the glass dish in a tin of warm water so the mixture remains lukewarm for half an hour, during which time it will become quite firm.
7. Whisk up half a pint of cream with sugar.
8. Pour the whisked cream over the junket before serving.