Claret Jelly

Ingredients

• a bottle of light claret
• a sherryglass of cherry brandy
• four ounces of white sugar
• the rind of one finely-peeled lemon
• the juice of two
• a gill and a half of raspberry syrup
• an ounce of gelatine

Method

1. 1

   Boil all together, add gelatine, and strain through muslin.

2. 2

   Decorate a jelly-mould with crystallised raspberries, set it on ice, pour some liquid jelly into the mould to set the fruit, and gradually fill the mould with the liquid.

3. 3

   Let the jelly get quite firm.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mrs. Roundell's Practical cookery book (1898) by Roundell, Charles Mrs, page 326. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Claret Jelly. — A bottle of light claret, a sherryglass of cherry brand}', four ounces of white sugar, the rind of one finely-peeled lemon and the juice of two, a gill and a half of raspberry syrup (or half a pound of raspberry jam). Boil all together, add an ounce of gelatine, and strain through muslin. Decorate a jelly-mould with crystallised raspberries, set it upon ice, pour some of the liquid jelly into the mould to set the fruit, and after that gradually fill the mould with the liquid. Let the jelly get quite firm. Hand a pint of iced cream, slightly sweetened. Or use a border-mould, and put whipped cream in the centre. [ Wyvern.) Prune Jelly.— Put into an enamelled saucepan a pound of prunes, two ounces of white sugar, the finely-peeled rind of a lemon, a piece of cinnamon, and enough claret and water, mixed half and half, to cover them. Stew gently till the prunes are quite tender. Take the pan off the fire, drain off the liquid, stone the prunes, and pass them through the sieve into a basin. Crack the stones, and add the kernels to the prune pulp. Steep an ounce of gelatine in the liquid strained off, put it on the fire, and when the gelatine is dissolved mix it with the prune pulp, adding a sherryglass of cherry brandy

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.