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On Sun, 28 Oct 2018 09:31:57 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>On Sunday, October 28, 2018 at 12:04:04 PM UTC-4, U.S. Janet B. wrote:
>> On Sun, 28 Oct 2018 03:38:16 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >On Sunday, October 28, 2018 at 2:04:45 AM UTC-4, U.S. Janet B. wrote:
>> >> On Sun, 28 Oct 2018 00:59:54 -0500, Sqwertz >
>> >> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >On Fri, 26 Oct 2018 07:10:51 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> On Friday, October 26, 2018 at 8:39:40 AM UTC-4, Janet wrote:
>> >> >>> In article >, lid
>> >> >>> says...
>> >> >>>>
>> >> >>>> On Thu, 25 Oct 2018 13:42:34 -0700 (PDT), Silvar Beitel wrote:
>> >> >>>>
>> >> >>>> > I suspect you are right. The comments in that thread were interesting,
>> >> >>>> > too. I will have to experiment (which, given the rate at which I make
>> >> >>>> > bread and the dimensions of the art, will probably take the rest of
>> >> >>>> > my life. :-) )
>> >> >>>>
>> >> >>>> It's hard to imagine that bread, wine, and cheese were some of the
>> >> >>>> first Universal Foods discovered/invented.
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> The first universal foods were leaves, fruit and berries, nuts, meat,
>> >> >>> fish and milk.
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> Bread, wine and cheese came much later, after nomadic hunter-gatherers
>> >> >>> got into the residential property market and turned into herdsmen,
>> >> >>> seed-sowers and farmers.
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> Janet UK
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Perhaps cheese was discovered by the hunter-gatherers. Isn't the myth
>> >> >> that one of them put surplus milk in a bag made from an animal's stomach,
>> >> >> and the jiggling as he walked along mixed it with the natural rennet and
>> >> >> turned it into cheese?
>> >> >
>> >> >That's one of the legends. But cheese, wine (or other alcohol), and
>> >> >bread were developed independently on different continents without
>> >> >the knowledge of other continents. But not all continents had all
>> >> >3, such as native North Americans not having cheese, that I know of.
>> >> >
>> >> >-sw
>> >>
>> >> I thought that was the story for yogurt
>> >
>> >Yogurt doesn't require rennet. You can put milk in a clay pot and end
>> >up with yogurt (if you're lucky).
>> >
>> >Cindy Hamilton

>>
>> Isn't rennet present in stomach lining of animals?

>
>Yes, that's correct. If you put milk in an animal's stomach you get
>cheese, not yogurt. Yogurt is produced by bacterial action. Rennet
>is an enzyme that works by purely chemical means.
>
>Of course if you used an actual stomach, you might get both happening
>at once.
>
>Cindy Hamilton


whatever and however, I am glad it happened.
Janet US