Strawberry Jelly

Ingredients

• Strawberries, pounded sugar
• to every pint of juice
• 1-1/4 oz isinglass

Instructions

1. Pick the strawberries, put them into a pan, squeeze them well with a wooden spoon, add sufficient pounded sugar to sweeten them nicely, and let them remain for 1 hour, that the juice may be extracted;
2. then add 1/2 pint of water to every pint of juice.
3. Strain the strawberry-juice and water through a bag; measure it, and to every pint allow 1-1/4 oz. of isinglass, melted and clarified in 1/4 pint of water.
4. Mix this with the juice;
5. put the jelly into a mould, and set the mould in ice.
6. A little lemon-juice added to the strawberry-juice improves the flavour of the jelly, if the fruit is very ripe; but it must be well strained before it is put to the other ingredients, or it will make the jelly muddy.