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A clear jelly made by cooking eggs with jelly and brandy, then cooling in a mold.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and brandy are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,340 recipes. Both carry acetoin, which smells butter, cream. The science ↓

Jellies, Creams, Ices

Ingredients

Directions

Clarify the jelly

  1. Wash the shells of the eggs and heat them with the whites.

  2. Stir the eggs briskly into the jelly and place over low heat.

  3. Let it come slowly to a boil, then simmer for 5 minutes.

  4. Filter the jelly through a bag using the egg whites.

  5. If not clear, keep warm and pass through the bag again.

Flavor and set

  1. Add ⅓ cup of brown brandy for flavor and color.

  2. Pour the jelly into a cooled mold.

Unmold and serve

  1. Dip the mold in tepid water before serving to loosen the jelly.

  2. Invert the mold onto a glass dish and let it stand for a minute.

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 flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Egg + brandytop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,340 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetoin (butter, cream).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Egg whites collect cloudy particles as the jelly heats, leaving it clear.
Jelly
Forms the gel base that sets firm once the mixture is chilled in the mold.
Brown brandy
Adds aroma and a golden color to the finished jelly.

The step that matters

Letting the jelly come to a boil slowly while the egg whites are stirred in. Heating gently lets the egg whites rise and trap cloudy particles. Rapid heating or stirring can break the raft, leaving the jelly cloudy and needing refiltering.

“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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