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Invalid Food Jelly

A jelly made from invalid food, castor sugar, French leaf gelatin, and optional flavouring.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and sherry are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 22% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,141 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Invalid Food Jelly

Ingredients

Directions

Make the jelly

  1. Heat the invalid food with milk until hot.

  2. Add the gelatin and stir over the heat until dissolved.

  3. Stir in the sugar and your choice of flavouring.

Set and serve

  1. Pour into a wetted mould and let it set.

  2. Turn out and serve cold.

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.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Sugar + sherrytop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,141 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

French leaf gelatine
Sets the liquid into a firm, wobbly jelly as it cools.
Castor sugar
Adds sweetness and balances the flavour of the jelly.
Flavouring
Adds aroma and taste, such as port, sherry, lemon or vanilla.

The step that matters

Dissolve the gelatine completely. Gelatine must fully dissolve in the hot liquid before setting. Undissolved granules leave the jelly grainy and can make it set weak or unevenly.

“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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