Name: Iceland Moss
Ingredients: Iceland moss (Cetraria islandica); flour; water; carbonate of soda

Iceland Moss

Ingredients

Iceland moss (Cetraria islandica)
flour
water
carbonate of soda

Directions

Soak the Iceland moss in a weak solution of carbonate of soda to remove bitterness.
Grind the soaked moss into a fine powder.
Mix the ground moss with flour.
Add the mixture to boiling water to create a jelly-like consistency.

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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