CI To make a dish of meat jelly
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Introduction
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The Source Recipe
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CI To make a dish of meat jelly. This dish is called dish of gelatina. Take an eel, wash it well with a knife, draw (out) that (which is) inside and make 22 crumbs in a pot, spoons of oil, and put in an onion cut minutely and a decent quantity of salt, and depress it tigete to half, and then put 50 almonds with the skins inside and a quarter center of bread toasted in the fire, infused in vinegar, and one center of eel. Grind together in a pot and temper with that quart of vinegar and of water, that are the two parts vinegar and the third water, and let it cook, and when the dish is cooked, put a half ounce of spices and draw it directly itself (on) to the table, and put in a half ounce of sugar, and when you cook it, put some spices on the dish.



Related Recipes
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For to make mete gelee þat it be wel chariaunt, tak wyte wyn & a perty of water & safroun & gode spicis & flesch of piggys or of hennys, or fresch fisch, & boyle þam togedere; & after, wan yt ys boylyd & cold, | dres yt in dischis & serue yt forþe. []

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Materials
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gelatin
seafood
oil
onions
salt
nuts
bread
vinegar
sugar


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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?libri:62>. Accessed on April 29, 2024, 6:09 pm.

Searchable index of "". Medieval Cookery.
  <http://www.medievalcookery.com/search/display.html?douce:36>. Accessed on April 29, 2024, 6:09 pm.