18^th Century: Devonshire Junket

Junkets are made by setting milk with rennet. They appear first in the fifteenth century, when they were called ‘Iouncat’, ‘Ioncate’ or ‘Iunket’ in Middle English. The earliest mention of this dish can be found in John Russell’s Boke of Nurture of about 1460: ‘Milke, crayme, and cruddes, and eke the Ioncate.’ From the sixteenth century, recipes for trifle look a lot like junket. The early seventeenth century writer Gervase Mar