STRAWBERRY JELLY

The Book of Household Management · Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary) · 1861
Source
The Book of Household Management
Yield
1.5 pint
Status
success · extracted 13 days ago
Not a recipe
No
Ingredients (6)
For the jelly
Instructions (12)
  1. Pick the strawberries and put them into a pan.
  2. Squeeze them well with a wooden spoon.
  3. Add sufficient pounded sugar to sweeten them nicely.
  4. Let them remain for 1 hour, that the juice may be extracted.
  5. Add 1/2 pint of water to every pint of juice.
  6. Strain the strawberry-juice and water through a bag.
  7. Measure the juice and water mixture.
  8. To every pint of this mixture, add 1-1/4 oz. of isinglass, which has been melted and clarified in 1/4 pint of water.
  9. Mix the isinglass mixture with the juice.
  10. Put the jelly into a mould.
  11. Set the mould in ice.
  12. If the fruit is very ripe, a little well-strained lemon-juice can be added to the strawberry-juice before mixing with the other ingredients to improve the flavor.
Original Text
STRAWBERRY JELLY. 1484. INGREDIENTS.—Strawberries, pounded sugar; to every pint of juice allow 1-1/4 oz. of isinglass. Mode.—Pick the strawberries, put them into a pan, squeeze them well with a wooden spoon, add sufficient pounded sugar to sweeten them nicely, and let them remain for 1 hour, that the juice may be extracted; then add 1/2 pint of water to every pint of juice. Strain the strawberry-juice and water through a bag; measure it, and to every pint allow 1-1/4 oz. of isinglass, melted and clarified in 1/4 pint of water. Mix this with the juice; put the jelly into a mould, and set the mould in ice. A little lemon-juice added to the strawberry-juice improves the flavour of the jelly, if the fruit is very ripe; but it must be well strained before it is put to the other ingredients, or it will make the jelly muddy. Time.—1 hour to draw the juice. Average cost, with the best isinglass, 3s. Sufficient.—Allow 1-1/2 pint of jelly for 5 or 6 persons. Seasonable in June, July, and August.
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