Another sort

New system of domestic cookery, forme... · Rundell, Maria Eliza Ketelby · 1806
Source
New system of domestic cookery, formed upon principles of economy, and adapted to the use of private families
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success · extracted 13 days ago
Not a recipe
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Ingredients (13)
jelly base
flavoring and clarifying
garnish
Instructions (7)
  1. Boil four quarts of water with three calf’s feet that have been only scalded, till half wasted.
  2. Take the jelly from the fat and sediment.
  3. Mix with it the juice of a Seville orange, and twelve lemons, the peels of three, the whites and shells of twelve eggs; brown sugar to taste, near a pint of raisin wine, one ounce of coriander seed, a quarter of an ounce of allspice, a bit of cinnamon, and six cloves, all bruised, after having previously mixed them cold.
  4. The jelly should boil fifteen minutes without stirring.
  5. Then clear it through a flannel bag.
  6. While running take a little jelly, and mix with a teacupful of water in which a bit of beetroot has been boiled, and run it through the bag when all the rest is run out.
  7. This is to garnish the other jelly, being cooled on a plate; but this is matter of choice.
Original Text
Another sort. Boil four quarts of water with three calf’s feet that have been only scalded, till half wasted: take the jelly from the fat and sediment: mix with it the juice of a Seville orange, and twelve lemons, the peels of three, the whites and shells of twelve eggs; brown sugar to taste, near a pint of raisin wine, one ounce of coriander seed, a quarter of an ounce of allspice, a bit of cinnamon, and six cloves, all bruised, after having previously mixed them cold. The jelly should boil fifteen minutes without stirring; then clear it through a flannel bag. While running take a little jelly, and mix with a teacupful of water in which a bit of beetroot has been boiled, and run it through the bag when all 167the rest is run out; and this is to garnish the other jelly, being cooled on a plate; but this is matter of choice.
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