Savory Jelly

The Art of Cookery Made Easy and Refined · Mollard, John · 1802

Source: The Art of Cookery Made Easy and Refined
Time: Cook: 15 min Total: 15 min
Status: success · extracted 11 days ago
Not a recipe: No

Ingredients (9)

Base liquid

the liquor, when cold, that either poultry or meat was braised in, or some veal stock, taking care it be very free from fat. ↝ Veal, loin, separable lean only, cooked, braised [Lamb, Veal, and Game Products]

Seasoning

salt ↝ Salt, table, iodized [Spices and Herbs]
lemon pickle ↝ Pickles, dill [Olives, pickles, pickled vegetables]
cayenne pepper ↝ Spices, pepper, red or cayenne [Spices and Herbs]
tarragon or plain vinegar

Thickener and clarifying agents

dissolved isinglass
plenty of whites of eggs ↝ Egg, white only, raw [Eggs and omelets]
a small quantity of the yolks and shells ↝ Egg, yolk only, raw [Eggs and omelets]

Coloring

liquid of colour ↝ Beverages, yellow green colored citrus soft drink with caffeine [Beverages]

Instructions (6)

Make the base liquid warm and strain it through a tamis sieve into a clean stewpan.
Season it to the palate with salt, lemon pickle, cayenne pepper, and tarragon or plain vinegar.
Add a sufficient quantity of dissolved isinglass to make it of a proper stiffness.
Whisk into it plenty of whites of eggs, a small quantity of the yolks and shells, and add a little liquid of colour.
Set it over a fire, and when it boils let it simmer a quarter of an hour.
Run it through a jelly bag several times till perfectly bright.

Original Text

Savory Jelly.

Take the liquor, when cold, that either poultry or meat was braised in, or some veal stock, taking care it be very free from fat. Make it warm, and strain it through a tamis sieve into a clean stewpan; then season it to the palate with salt, lemon pickle, cayenne pepper, and tarragon or plain vinegar. Add a sufficient[181] quantity of dissolved isinglass to make it of a proper stiffness, and whisk into it plenty of whites of eggs, a small quantity of the yolks and shells, and add a little liquid of colour. Then set it over a fire, and when it boils let it simmer a quarter of an hour, and run it through a jelly bag several times till perfectly bright.

Notes

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