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Bread Jelly

Bread jelly is a simple liquid made by steeping bread in boiling water and straining.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Bread Jelly

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Steep the bread in boiling water until it becomes soft.

  2. Strain the mixture to remove the bread solids.

  3. Serve the liquid as a jelly.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Bread
Provides starch and flavour that give the liquid its body and toasty taste.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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