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Artificial Human Milk

A simple artificial human milk made by heating skimmed milk and adding rennet.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Artificial Human Milk

Artificial Human Milk

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Heat the skimmed milk to about 96°F (just warm).

  2. Stir in the Walden’s Extract of Rennet until well combined.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Skimmed milk
Provides the liquid and milk proteins that the rennet sets into a soft curd.
Walden’s extract of rennet
Enzyme that coagulates milk proteins, turning the liquid milk into a set curd.

The step that matters

Stirring in the rennet until well combined. Rennet must be evenly dispersed through the warm milk so that it sets the milk uniformly; uneven mixing can leave pockets of liquid or patchy curds.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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