To Make Bread Jelly
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Soak the bread in water for 6 hours.
Pour off the water and add 1 pint of fresh water.
Cook and serve
Boil for 1 hour until a jelly forms.
Strain and cool before serving.
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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Bread
- Its starch thickens the water into a soft, set jelly as it cooks.
The step that matters
Boil for 1 hour until a jelly forms. Starch from the bread must fully swell and thicken the liquid as it cooks. Stopping early leaves the liquid thin and unset, while the jelly firms as it cools.
“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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