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Lemon Jelly.—Take six
lemons and half a pound of sugar, and rub the sugar on the
outside of three of the lemons; the lemons must be hard and
yellow, the peel should not be shrivelled. Now squeeze the
juice of all six lemons into a basin, add the sugar and a
pint of water. Of course, the lemon-juice must be strained.
(If wine is allowed, add half a pint of good golden sherry
or Madeira.) Bring this to the boil and thicken it with some
corn-flour in the ordinary way, allowing a tablespoonful of
corn-flour for every pint of fluid. Pour it into a mould and
when it is set turn it out. A lemon jelly like this should
be turned on to a piece of ornamental paper placed at the
bottom of a silver or some other kind of dish. The base of
the mould should be ornamented with thin slices of lemon cut
in half, the diameter touching the base of the mould and the
semicircular piece of peel outside. If a round basin has
been used for a mould, place a corner of a lemon on the top
in the middle, surrounded with a few imitation green leaves
cut out of angelica. This improves the dish in appearance
and also shows what the dish is made of.
Orange Jelly.—Take six
oranges, two lemons, and half a pound of lump sugar; rub the
sugar on the outside of three of the oranges, squeeze the
juice of the six oranges into a basin with the juice of two
lemons, strain, add the sugar and a pint of water. The
liquid will be of an orange colour, owing to the rind of the
orange rubbed on to the sugar. (If wine be allowed, add half
a pint of golden sherry or Madeira.) Bring the liquid to
boiling point and then thicken it with corn-flour, and pour
it while hot into a mould or plain white basin; when cold,
turn it out on to a piece of ornamental paper placed at the
bottom of a dish; surround the bottom of the mould with thin
slices of orange cut into quarters and the centre part
pushed under the mould; place the small end of an orange on
the top of the mould with some little leaves or spikes of
green angelica placed round the edge.
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