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Milk Jelly

Milk jelly is a simple gelatinous dessert made by mixing cold water with milk and allowing it to set.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Milk Jelly

Milk Jelly

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine cold water with milk in a bowl.

  2. Allow the mixture to thicken slightly before pouring it into a mold.

  3. Once firm, dip the mold in warm water to release the jelly.

  4. Serve as a nutritious option for convalescents.

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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The step that matters

Pour at the right thickness. The mixture needs to thicken slightly before it goes into the mold. Pouring too early can leave it too loose to hold its shape, while waiting too long may leave it too thick to fill the mold evenly.

“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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