how to Make Rennet for Cheese 🧀 from Wild Thistle

Find out how to prepare homemade vegetable thistle rennet, a natural and sustainable alternative to animal rennet! Perfect for making vegetarian and genuine cheeses, this method uses thistle flowers to obtain effective and easy-to-prepare rennet. Follow me in this video to learn all the steps and secrets for a perfect result. 🧀
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For this preparation you will need:

Thistle flowers 20 g
Water 250 ml

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[Sheepdog]

Here in the US, in New England, settlers have used a weed called "cleavers" (galium aparine) - it's a sticky trailing little plant - if you grab a bundle, crush the leaves and stems a little bit, put it in a net and suspend it in the milk - it will curdle the milk in a short time...it also has medicinal purposes, and can be fed to livestock

[kbvca]

Wow! Many thanks for this video. I make cheese and I am a vegetarian and so use only microbial rennet, but while I learned that you can use thistles to make rennet, I never knew HOW to extract the compounds or even from what part of the thistle the rennet was made. Your video is what we call a "game changer". Thank you.

[lauranyc]

Omg I planted milk thistle this summer I got many flowers and they finally died because last 4-5 days weather in 30s 20s . Smells amazing, beautiful leaves and bees love them 😁 I got ton of dry flowers now I know what to do with them 😁 Grazie 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[omnigeddon]

This is changed my life thank you.. across the street from me there's like so much of this stuff it's you can't walk through like 20 ft by 2000 ft thick.. 9-10 feet tall..

[AwesomeFish]

Fascinating. Very handy to know, it's easy enough to find thistles around.

[frompu]

Super cool! Looking forward to the cheese. 😊

[facundopasini]

Gonna follow this recipe for sure! It's full of thistles right now where I live

[masih]

Wow this one is like survival camping videos

[brucecarter]

never heard of vegetable rennet. what a great incentive to get out and harvest thistles which are invasive on this side of the pond. flower petals can be stored dry, too

[jejethejeplalq]

I didn't know you could do that... Very useful!

[barkmaker]

Good to know. I normally just gather the stalks to eat like celery. Now I know to save the skin and flowers for more uses.

[stormytruthseeker]

YESSSS thank you. This is awesome thank you. I have looked for this for a while now and here it is, with you. Bravo. Oh and there are many other ways to make rennet too which I found out using chilly and so forth.

[nzs]

Never ever would i have thought that these could be used to make cheese! Once again thank you Maestro for the continued adventure.
Will the next video be you using the extract to make cheese?

[-joe]

Excelent😛soy de la pampa y aqui esta lleno, voy a probar hacerlo

[zugvogel]

Thank you very much that you share your knowledge! I make my own cheese and I have a funny feeling with the vegetarian Rennet in the shops. There is an other herb called Bedstraw (Galium verum). That works fine too.

[stevekemble]

This is fantastic information! I hear that thistle rennet is not good for making all types of cheese because it has a flavor. What types of cheese can be made with this rennet?

[pkrueger]

We call it a Scottish thistle. remembrance and love. I have one that grows wild in my yard.

[brucetidwell]

That is so neat. Thank you! Thistles do grow in the southern USA but they are not common in my area. I'll try to find some, though.

[geroldbendix]

Wow, I never knew.
But yoghurt or lemon juice do also the trick.

[Stelios.Posantzis]

You should be declared a saint of vegetarians! Fantastic video. Will it work with plant-based milk, say soy milk, pea milk or oat milk?