This section is from the book "The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book", by Fannie Merritt Farmer. Also available from Amazon: Original 1896 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book.
1/2 box gelatine or 2 tablespoons granulated gelatine
1/2 cup cold water 1 cup boiling water 1/3 cup sugar
2 cups boiled coffee
Make same as Lemon Jelly. Serve with sugar and cream.
1/2 box gelatine or 2 tablespoons granulated gelatine
1/2 cup cold water
1 cup boiling water
2 cups cider
Sugar
Make same as Lemon Jelly.
1/2 box gelatine or
2 tablespoons granulated gelatine 1/2 cup cold water 1 2/3 cups boiling water
1 cup sugar
1 cup Sherry or Madeira wine 1/3 cup orange juice 3 tablespoons lemon juice
Soak gelatine twenty minutes in cold.water, dissolve in boiling water; add sugar, wine, orange juice, and lemon juice; strain, mould, and chill. If a stronger jelly is desired, use additional wine in place of orange juice.
1/2 box gelatine or
2 1/2 tablespoons granulated gelatine 1/2 cup cold water 12/3 cups boiling water 1 cup sugar
1/2 cup Sherry wine
2 tablespoons brandy Kirsch
1/3 cup orange juice
3 tablespoons lemon juice Fruit red
Soak gelatine twenty minutes in cold water, dissolve in hot water, add sugar, fruit juices, Sherry, brandy, and enough Kirsch to make one cup of strong liquor, then color with fruit red. Strain, mould, and chill. Serve with or without Cream Sauce I.
1/4 box gelantine or
1 tablespoon granulated gelatine 1/4 cup cold water
1 cup boiling water 2/3 cup sugar 1/2 cup Sauterne 1/4 cup orange juice
11/2 tablespoons lemon juice
Make same as other jellies, cool slightly, and beat until frothy and firm enough to mould. Turn into mould and chill.
Use recipe for Wine or Russian Jelly. Fill Apollinaris glasses three-fourths full, reserving one-fourth of the mixture, which, after cooling, is to be beaten until frothy (using a Dover egg-beater) and placed on top of jelly in glasses which represents freshly drawn lager beer. This is a most attractive way of serving jelly to one who is ill.
Soak two tablespoons granulated gelatine in one-half cup cold water, and dissolve in one and one-half cups boiling water. Add one and one-half cups Sauterne, three tablespoons lemon juice, and one cup sugar. Color with leaf green, strain into a shallow pan, chill, and cut in inch Cubes..
1/3 lb. prunes 2 cups cold water Boiling water 1/2 cup cold water
1/2 box gelatine or
2 1/2 tablespoons granulated gelatine 1 cup sugar
1/4 cup lemon juice
Pick over, wash, and soak prunes for several hours in two cups cold water, and cook in same water until soft; remove prunes; stone, and cut in quarters. To prune water add enough boiling water to make two cups. Soak gelatine in half-cup cold water, dissolve in hot liquid, add sugar, lemon juice, then strain, add prunes, mould, and chill. Stir twice while cooling to prevent prunes from settling. Serve with sugar and cream.
 
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