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renneting

renneting noun: adding rennet to milk during cheesemaking.

Noun

renneting (plural rennetings)

  1. Adding rennet to milk during cheesemaking
  2. A kind of apple; the rennet.
    • Upon which account ’tis that the Juice of ripe pulpy Apples, as Pippins, Rennetings, &c. that are of a ſyrupy tenacious nature, do detain in them more of the diſperſed particles of the Fruit that by the Preſſure comes out with the Liquor; […]1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, “Some Observations Relating to Cyder”, in The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock...

Forms of renneting

pluralrennetings

Questions about renneting

What does renneting mean?
Renneting means adding rennet to milk during cheesemaking.
What part of speech is renneting?
Renneting is a noun.
What is the plural of renneting?
The plural of renneting is rennetings.

Words near renneting in the dictionary

  1. rennet cheese
  2. rennet cheeses
  3. rennet stomach
  4. rennet stomachs
  5. renneted
  6. renneting
  7. rennetings
  8. rennetless
  9. rennets
  10. rennety
  11. Rennick

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