Honey Junket Ice Cream with a dash of Chop Suey

[trickykitty]

I'm going through some recipes that I have inherited from my grandparents. The cards are browning from age. Some of them come from a collection titled "Sears Own Coldspot Recipes" which presumably came with the Sears Coldspot freezer purchased at the time.

So here's one that I came across:


HONEY JUNKET ICE CREAM

Coffee cream, 1-1/2 cups
Whipping cream, 1 cup
Honey, 1/4 cup
Junket, 1 tablet
Lemon joice, 2 tablespoons

Dissolve Junket tablet in coffee cream. Whip cream. Add honey and lemon juice. Fold into Junket mix. Freeze.

Needless to say, I'm pretty sure that coffee cream is the equivalent of our present-day half-n-half. As for Junket, I really for the life of me have no freaking idea how this "loose pudding" could possibly have come in a tablet form. I'm thinking that perhaps if I substitute a packet of Jell-O pudding mix that *maybe* I'll come close to creating something palatable.

Any suggestions?

Incidentally, I came across this blog while searching, and learned a little something about Chop Suey:

Incidentally, chop suey when translated to Cantonese means "odds and ends." As Jennifer 8. Lee related in her book The Fortune Cookie Chronicles Americans in the fifties whet crazy for what they thought was the national dish of all of China. This would be like someone from China coming to the U.S. and asking for our national dish which they heard was called "leftovers." (sic)

Comments

[channonyarrow.livejournal.com]

Junket tablets are rennet, which is the lining of a calf's stomach, as I recall from reading Little House On The Prairie, but that was a long time ago, so I may be wrong on that. It's SOMETHING'S stomach lining, anyway!

No idea if you can find them commercially, but I bet that someone online is selling them. And that recipe makes me want honey ice cream. But I think that using Jello wouldn't come even close to the effect of junket, I may be wrong.

[trickykitty.livejournal.com]

Behold - they can be ordered (http://www.junketdesserts.com/rennettablets.aspx), still, to this day. That's almost scary.

[channonyarrow.livejournal.com]

Mmm ... stomach lining ...