Jelly

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
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The Experienced English Housekeeper
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Ingredients (9)
Instructions (8)
  1. Boil one ounce of isinglass in a quart of water till it is reduced to a pint.
  2. Put in the whites of four eggs, with two spoonfuls of rice water, to keep the eggs from poaching, and sugar to your taste.
  3. Run it through a jelly-bag.
  4. Put to it two ounces of sweet and one ounce of bitter almonds.
  5. Give them a scald in your jelly, and put them through a hair sieve.
  6. Put it in a China bowl.
  7. The next day turn it out and stick it all over with almonds, blanched and cut lengthways.
  8. Garnish with green leaves or flowers.
Original Text
BOIL one ounce of isinglass in a quart of water till it is reduced to a pint, then put in the whites of four eggs, with two spoonfuls of rice water, to keep the eggs from poaching, and sugar to your taste, and run it through a jelly-bag, then put to it two ounces of sweet and one ounce of bitter almonds, give them a scald in your jelly, and put them through a hair sieve, put it in a China bowl, the next day turn it out and stick it all over with almonds, blanched and cut lengthways: garnish with green leaves or flowers.
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