Calf's Foot JELLY

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
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The Experienced English Housekeeper
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To make Calf's Foot JELLY. PUT a gang of calves feet well cleaned into a pan, with ſix quarts of water, and let them boil gently till reduced to two quarts, then take out the feet, ſcum off the fat clean, and clear the jelly from the ſediment, beat the whites of five eggs to a froth, then add one pint of Liſbon, Madeira, or any pale made wine, if you chooſe it, then ſqueeze in the juice of three le- mons: when your ſtock is boiling, take three ſpoonfuls of it, and keep ſtirring it with your wine and eggs, to keep it from curdling, then add a little more ſtock, and ſtill keep ſtirring it, and then put it in the pan, and ſweeten it with loaf ſugar to your taſte, a glaſs of French brandy will keep the jelly from turning blue in froſty air, put in the outer rind of two lemons, and let it boil one minute all together, and pour it into a flannel bag, and let it run into a baſon, and keep pouring it back gently into the bag till it runs clear and bright, then ſet your glaſſes under the bag, and cover it, left duſt gets in.—If you would have the jelly for a fifth-pond, tranſparent pud-
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