26 - To make crystall gelly
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Introduction
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The Source Recipe
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26 - To make crystall gelly. Take a knockle of Veale, and two calves feet (your calves feet being flayed and scalded) and boyle them in faire sprint water: and when they are boyled, ready to eat, you may save your flesh, and not boyle it to peeces: for, if you doe so, the gelly will looke thicke: then take a quart of the cleerest of the same broth, and put it into a posner, adding thereunto Ginger, white pepper, six whole cloves, one nutmeg quartered, one graine of musk: put all these whole spices in a little bag, and boile them in your gelly: season it with foure ounces of sugar candie, and three spoonfuls of Rose-water, so let it run thorow your gelly bag; and if you meane to have it looke of an amber colour, bruise your spices, and let them boil in your gelly loose.
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To mak cristalle gilly tak whyt wyne that will hold hir colour and boil the fishe ther in and let it stand and serve it furthe. []
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Materials
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gelatin
veal
calf
venison
broth
ginger
pepper
cloves
nutmeg
musk
sugar
roses
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Procedure
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Bibliography
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Searchable index of "". Medieval Cookery.
<http://www.medievalcookery.com/search/display.html?delig:26>. Accessed on September 13, 2024, 12:40 pm.
Searchable index of "". Medieval Cookery.
<http://www.medievalcookery.com/search/display.html?noble:39>. Accessed on September 13, 2024, 12:40 pm.