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Hot Jelly Water

A simple drink made by dissolving acid fruit jelly in boiling water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Hot Jelly Water

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Place the jelly in a goblet.

  2. Pour the boiling water over the jelly.

  3. Stir until the jelly is completely dissolved.

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

Fruit jelly
Provides sweetness and fruit flavour, and sets the drink's body once dissolved.

“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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