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Lemon Jelly

A gelatinous dessert made from lemon juice and cold water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Lemon Jelly

Ingredients

Directions

Make the jelly

  1. Make like Wine Jelly, but omit the wine and use cold water instead.

  2. Juice the lemons and strain the juice to remove seeds and pulp.

  3. Combine the lemon juice with the cold water and mix well.

Set and serve

  1. Chill until set and serve.

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

Lemons
Provide the juice that gives the jelly its tart, bright flavour and acidity.

“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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