Calves' Feet Jelly
Ingredients
Directions
Place the calves' feet in a large pot and add 4 quarts of water.
Bring to a boil over low heat.
Simmer until the flesh separates from the bones.
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
- Calves' feet
- Their collagen-rich skin, tendons and bone release gelatin into the water, which later sets the jelly.
- Water
- Acts as the cooking liquid that draws gelatin out of the feet during the long simmer.
The step that matters
Simmer until the flesh separates from the bones. Gentle, long simmering slowly dissolves collagen into gelatin. Boiling hard can cloud the liquid and break down the set, so keep the heat low.
“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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