Jelly

Ingredients

• One box of Chalmer's gelatine
• i pint of cold water
• 3 pints of boiling water
• i^ pints of cooking wine
• juice of 2 lemons
• >4 an orange

Method

1. 1

   Soak gelatine in cold water, add boiling water, stir until dissolved, then add wine and juices.

2. 2

   Strain and set to harden.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The way to the heart (1905) by Carrie Pickett Moore, page 36. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

3 pints of boiling water, i^ pounds of sugar, i^ pints of wine, juice of 3 lemons and rind of i. Mix well and freeze before it begins to congeal. Ambrosia. Peel and take the seed from 12 oranges ; cut them in dice and sprinkle with sugar. Slice 6 bananas and fill a bowl with layers of orange, bananas and cocoanut, sprinkling each layer with sugar. Serve cold. Blanc-Mange. One ounce of gelatine and 3 pints of milk. Soak the gela- tine in half of the milk, and put the rest on to boil ; add ^ cup of sugar and pour over the gelatine. Return to the fire and let heat through ; strain and pour in moulds, wet with water. Season with Sauer's vanilla or bitter almond extract. Custard Blanc-Mange. Make a custard of i quart of milk, i teacup of sugar and 4 eggs. Stir in while boiling 5^ box of gelatine that has been soaked in i teacup of milk. Season with Sauer's vanilla, and add ^ pound of shredded almonds. Pour in moulds and serve with whipped cream. CREAM, JELLIES, ETC. in German Blanc-Mange. Five eggs, ^ pound of sugar, juice of i^ lemons and rind of one, Yz ounce of gelatine soaked in i cup of water. Stir the yelks in the sugar for ^ an hour, add the lemon juice and the well-dissolved gelatine, lastly the beaten whites, and pour at once into a pudding mould that has been wet. The mould must first be oiled with a little almond oil, and turned over to allow all the oil to run out, then wet and fill with the pudding. When stiff turn out and use with v^hipped cream or custard. Snow Flake. One cocoanut, grated and soaked in just enough cream to cover it ; soak for an hour. Sweeten and flavor i pint of cream and whip to a stiff froth. Beat the whites of 3 eggs and mix with the cocoanut and cream. It must be used at once, as it falls from standing. Apple Snow. Pare and core 12 large apples, put them in cold water and stew until soft enough to mash through a sieve, sweeten to taste, and flavor with Sauer's vanilla. Beat the whites of 6 eggs to a heavy froth, and add >^ pound of powdered sugar. Beat the two together until light, and cover the top with whipped cream. Jelly. One box of Chalmer's gelatine, i pint of cold water. Put together and let soak for an hour. Pour on this 3 pints of boil- ing water, and stir until all has dissolved. Add i>^ pints of cooking wine and i^i pounds of sugar. Squeeze into it the juice of 2 lemons and >4 an orange

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