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Gelatine Paste for Ornamenting Ices

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Gelatine Paste for Ornamenting Ices

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Make clear jelly using your preferred method.

  2. Reduce the jelly by slow boiling until it thickens slightly.

  3. Color the jelly as desired.

  4. Filter the jelly again to remove impurities.

  5. Add flavoring to the jelly and cool it on large platters.

  6. Use cookie cutters to stamp out shapes like leaves and flowers.

  7. Prepare the shapes to place on molded ices once they are turned out.

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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