Rose-Flavoured Junket

Junket is a smooth, cool, milky pudding, something that you either love or loathe. I was never forced to eat it at school, so I see junket as a very agreeable ending to a summer meal, but there are people, who, recalling school meals, still shudder with horror if it is so much as mentioned.

In Anglo-Norman times junket was a soft, fresh cheese, so called for the jonquet or basket made from rushes (jonques) in which it was drained. And, indeed, making an unsweetened jun