Strawberry Mould

Ingredients

• a pot of strawberry jam
• a glass of liqueur or brandy
• an ounce of gelatine
• a drop or two of cochineal
• almonds

Method

1. 1

   Dilute strawberry jam with syrup, strain, color with cochineal, and add liqueur.

2. 2

   Melt gelatine, strain, and stir into the syrup.

3. 3

   Decorate a mould with almonds, pour in the syrup, cover, and set in ice for two hours.

4. 4

   Turn out and serve with cold custard or iced cream.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Culinary jottings (1885) by A. R. Kenney-Herbert, page 191. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

a pot of strawberry jam with suffi- Mould of straw- ^:^^^^ ^^^^^, ^^ ^^^^ enough syrup to fill your mould, strain it, colour it a rosy pink with a drop or two of cochineal, and add a glass of liqueur or brandy ; melt an ounce of gelatine, and strain it, when cold, into the syrup, stirring well : — decorate a plain mould w4th almonds

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