Cooking and Other Recipes

Ingredients

• ½ box Knox's gelatine
• ½ cup cold water
• 1 pint hot water
• ½ teaspoon beef extract
• 1 cup boiling water
• salt to taste
• pepper to taste
• juice of 1 lemon
• 2 hard-boiled eggs
• chopped parsley
• cress or lettuce for garnish
• mayonnaise dressing
• fruit jelly

Directions

1. Soak the gelatine in cold water for 5 minutes.

2. Add hot water, dissolved beef extract, salt, pepper, and lemon juice.

3. Baste over the top of the meat in the mold.

4. Pierce the meat with a skewer and let it absorb the gelatine for 12 hours.

5. Dip the mold in hot water, turn out the meat, and slice it.

6. Arrange on a platter, garnish with cress or lettuce, and serve with mayonnaise and fruit jelly.

7. For mayonnaise, chill the plate, eggs, and oil.

8. In a deep plate, mix yolks of 2 eggs with salt until broken.

9. Add oil drop by drop while stirring in the same direction until thick.

10. Season with salt, red pepper, and lemon juice to taste.

11. For fruit jelly, make lemon jelly and set a little in a wet mold.

12. When it begins to stiffen, add strawberries or cherries, then pour in more jelly and let it firm up.