Wine Jelly for the Sick

Ingredients

• one pint of Madeira wine
• one pint of water
• one ounce of isinglass
• a teacupful of water
• sugar to taste
• the juice of two

Method

1. 1

   Dissolve the isinglass in a teacup of water.

2. 2

   Let the wine and water be boiling hot, then stir in the dissolved isinglass and sugar to taste.

3. 3

   Make it quite sweet, let it come to a boil, and check if it sets as jelly when cold.

4. 4

   If not, boil it until it does.

5. 5

   If lemon is allowed, use the juice to flavor the jelly.

As published

This recipe was extracted from La cuisine creole (1885) by Lafcadio Hearn, page 93. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

WINB JBLLY FOR THE SICK. Take one pint of Madeira wine, one pint of water, and one ounce of isinglass dissolved in a teaeupf ul of water. Let the wine and water be boiling hot, then stir into it the dissolved isinglass, and sugar to taste ; make it quite sweet ; let it corne to a boil, try it by taking a little in a saucer, and if not a good jelly when cold, boil it until it is so ; if lemon is allowed, use the juice of two

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