Invalid's Jelly

Ingredients

• 12 shanks of mutton
• 3 quart water
• a bunch of sweet herbs
• pepper and salt to taste
• 3 blade mace
• 1 onion
• 1 lb lean beef
• a crust of bread toasted brown

Instructions

1. Soak the shanks in plenty of water for some hours, and scrub them well;
2. put them, with the beef and other ingredients, into a saucepan with the water, and let them simmer very gently for 5 hours.
3. Strain the broth, and, when cold, take off all the fat.
4. It may be eaten either warmed up or cold as a jelly.