Vegetable Coagulants

[Mateo]

i want to see the section for vegetables rennet

i put some info here i have

plants
cuajaleches
: Known since antiquity
• Greco-Roman world the Iliad, 'the milk curdles in fig ferment'
currently: • thistle (Cynara cardunculus
• artichoke (C. scolymus)
• Milk thistle (Silybum marianum
• star thistle (Centaurea calcitrapa

• plant spurge (Euphorbia serrata

• pineapple, papaya
• Dandelion
• nettle (Urtica gracilis)
• Calotropis procera

[Mateo]

Romans milk coagulated with vegetable rennet (the agrilla aceradilla or common, aceradilla of the Alps, the artichoke, rennet Figi)


one question:  i don´t see in book,people using rennet from goat , i always see rennet from cow and lamb , but for here i only can get from goat.

[mightyjesse]

The English seem to have been using galium verum - also known as Lady's Bedstraw - to make cheshire cheese, in particular...