Irish Moss Jelly
Ingredients
Directions
Wash and pick the Irish moss.
Boil the moss in 1½ pints of water for 20 minutes.
Strain the mixture and pour it into a dish to set as 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.
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What each ingredient does
- Irish moss
- Its natural gelling compounds thicken the cooking liquid into a jelly as it cools and sets.
The step that matters
Boil the moss in water for 20 minutes. Boiling extracts the gelling compounds from the moss into the water. Too little boiling leaves the liquid unset, while the set depends on those compounds being released fully.
“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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