Coffee Jelly
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Soak 1 cup gelatin in cold water for ½ hour.
Brew 1 qt strong coffee, sweetened to taste.
Add dissolved gelatin to hot coffee.
Pour mixture into wet cups.
Set and serve
Set in cool place for a few hours.
Serve with whipped cream.
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. See the original page.
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What each ingredient does
- Gelatin
- Sets the coffee liquid into a firm, wobbly jelly as it cools.
- Coffee
- Provides the main liquid and the strong coffee flavour of the jelly.
The step that matters
Fully dissolve the gelatin in the hot coffee. Gelatin sets by forming a network of proteins as it cools. If the gelatin is not fully dissolved before it is added to the coffee, undissolved granules stay in the jelly, leaving gritty spots and weakening the set.
“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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