Sour Jelly for Salads

Ingredients

• three to four pounds of shin of beef or of the neck
• three quarts of cold water
• a tablespoonful of salt
• a small head of celery
• four white onions
• a clove stuck in each
• a strip of the yellow peel from a lemon
• a tablespoonful of white pepper-corns
• two bay-leaves
• a teaspoonful of the best white vinegar
• a package of gelatine
• half an hour in a cup of white wine and water

Method

1. 1

   Put shin of beef in an earthen soup-kettle with cold water and salt.

2. 2

   Cook for an hour, then remove meat and strain broth.

3. 3

   Add celery, onions, lemon peel, pepper-corns, bay leaves, and vinegar.

4. 4

   Boil slowly for about three hours, reducing liquid to three pints.

5. 5

   Strain and add soaked gelatine.

6. 6

   Boil once and cool until ready to set.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from In foreign kitchens (1893) by Helen Stuart Campbell, page 19. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Sour Jelly for Salads. — Take three to four pounds of shin of beef or of the neck, choos- ing the leanest portion, and put over the fire in an earthen or enamelled soup-kettle. Add three quarts of cold water and a tablespoon- ful of salt, and cook for an hour without skimming. Then take out the meat, and dip it in hot water to free it from every particle of hardened scum ; strain the broth through a fine gauze strainer and return j:o the kettle, which should also be wiped clean. Put in the meat and add a small head of celery, four white onions with a clove stuck in each, a strip of the yellow peel from a lemon, a tablespoonful of white pepper-corns, two bay- leaves, and a teaspoonful of the best white vinegar. Let all boil slowly together till the meat and vegetables are in shreds, or about three hours, reducing the liquid to three pints when strained. Pass it through the finest gauze sieve, and add to it a package of gelatine. Cooper's or Cox's, which has been soaked half an hour in a cup of white wine and water

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