Sick-diet Jelly

A Plain Cookery Book for the Working ... · Francatelli, Charles Elmé · 1852
Source
A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes
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Ingredients (5)
Instructions (4)
  1. Boil the sago, tapioca, eringo root, and hartshorn shavings in three pints of water until reduced to one pint, stirring all the time.
  2. Strain the jelly through a muslin into a basin.
  3. Set it aside to become cold.
  4. A table-spoonful of this jelly may be given at a time, mixed in broth, milk, chocolate, cocoa, or tea.
Original Text
No. 194. How to make Sick-diet Jelly. Take of sago, tapioca, eringo root, and hartshorn shavings, of each one ounce; and boil the whole in three pints of water until reduced to one pint, stirring all the time; then strain the jelly through a muslin into a basin, and set it aside to become cold. A table-spoonful of this jelly may be given at a time, mixed in broth, milk, chocolate, cocoa, or tea. It is considered to be very strengthening.
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