This section is from the book "Breakfast, Luncheon And Tea", by Marion Harland. Also available from Amazon: Breakfast, Luncheon And Tea.
2 ounces of gelatine dissolved in 1/2 pint of water.
1 tea-cup of browned veal gravy.
1 pint of liquor in which the tongue was boiled.
1 table-spoonful sugar.
1 table-spoonful burnt sugar for coloring.
3 table-spoonfuls of vinegar.
1 pint boiling water.
Put together the gravy, liquor, sugar, vinegar and a table-spoonful of burnt sugar dissolved in cold water.
Add the dissolved gelatine and mix well - then the boiling water, and strain through flannel. Cut the tongue in slices as for the table. Let the jelly cool and begin to thicken. Wet a mould with cold water, put a little jelly in the bottom, then a layer of tongue, more jelly, and so on, until the mould is full. Cover and set in a cool place.
To turn it out, dip the mould in hot water for an instant, invert upon a dish, and garnish with celery-sprigs, and nasturtium-flowers. Cut with a thin, sharp knife, perpendicularly.
This is a handsome and delicious dish, and easily made.
 
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