Name: Iceland Moss
Ingredients: 1 oz. Iceland Moss; 1 quart cold water; 2 tablespoons pounded loaf sugar

Iceland Moss

Ingredients

1 oz. Iceland Moss
1 quart cold water
2 tablespoons pounded loaf sugar

Directions

Prepare the moss

Wash the Iceland Moss well in cold water.
Soak the moss in a basin of cold water overnight.
Squeeze the moss dry in a cloth.

Cook and serve

Place the moss in a saucepan with 1 quart of cold water.
Boil for 1 hour, stirring frequently.
Strain through a sieve into a basin and sweeten with loaf sugar.
Serve with wine or milk according to taste.

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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Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Iceland moss: Its natural gums thicken the water into a jelly-like liquid as it simmers.
Loaf sugar: Adds sweetness to balance the mild, bland flavour of the moss.

“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.