Dr. Starr's Gelatine Recipe
Ingredients
Directions
Soak the piece of gelatine in ½ cup of cold water for 3 hours.
Transfer the soaked gelatine to a teacup.
Place the teacup in a saucepan filled halfway with water.
Boil until the gelatine is completely dissolved.
Let it cool to form a jelly.
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
What each ingredient does
- Plate gelatine
- Forms the gel network that sets the liquid into a jelly when cooled.
- Cold water
- Hydrates the gelatine during soaking so it dissolves evenly and sets smoothly.
The step that matters
Dissolve the gelatine gently in a water bath. Placing the teacup in simmering water, rather than boiling the gelatine directly, heats it gradually. Overheating can weaken the gel's ability to set, so the gelatine should dissolve fully without a vigorous boil.
“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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