Simple Jelly

Ingredients

• an old fowl
• one pound of lean beef
• two pounds of leg of veal
• three pints of cold water
• salt to taste
• two carrots shredded
• two turnips shred finely

Method

1. 1

   Cut meat into small pieces, boil with water and salt.

2. 2

   Add carrots and turnips, cover, and boil for three hours.

3. 3

   Strain, press meat, let broth cool, add egg white whisked with broth, boil again, stir until thick, strain into a jar, and cool to set as jelly.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Practical household cookery (1891) by E. Duret, page 36. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SIMPLE JELLT. Take an old fowl, with one pound of lean beef and two pounds of leg of veal ; cut each in small pieces, put them into a stewpan with three pints of cold water, and salt to taste. Boil them ; skim most carefully, add two carrots and two turnips shred finely

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