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To Make Savoury Jelly

Ingredients

• 8 or 10 pounds of coarse lean beef, or the same quantity of the inferior parts of the fore quarter of veal
• 2 gallons of water
• 1 pound of lean salt pork
• 3 large onions chopped
• 3 carrots
• 1 large handful of parsley
• any sweet herb
• pepper
• salt
• 1/2 pint of white wine
• 1 large spoonful of lemon pickle
• 4 eggs

Instructions

Put the beef or veal into a pot with the water, salt pork, onions, carrots, parsley, and any sweet herb that you choose, with pepper and salt; boil it very gently till reduced to two quarts; strain it through a sieve; next day, take off the fat, turn out the jelly, and separate it from the dregs at the bottom; put it on the fire with the white wine, lemon pickle, and the whites and shells of the eggs beaten: when it boils clear on one side, run it through the jelly bag.

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Source

The Virginia Housewife (1860).