Jelly (Mrs. Daniel Cloete's Recipe)

Ingredients

• 1/2 oz Gelatine
• 1 lb Brown Sugar
• 1 pint Sherry
• 4 tablespoons Brandy
• 3 Oranges, juice of
• 2 Lemons
• 4 Eggs, whites and shells
• Cloves
• 2 small pieces Mace
• 6 Cardamom Seeds

Instructions

1. Soak the gelatine in one pint of cold water.
2. Then pour on half a pint of boiling water to dissolve the soaked gelatine (in winter take one pint or the jelly will be too firm).
3. Then add the other ingredients, and the whites of the eggs well whisked to a stiff froth.
4. Boil on a brisk fire until the scum rises to the top of the saucepan.
5. Have ready a tumbler of cold water, and pour some of the water on the boiling jelly. Do this three times, letting it boil in between.
6. Remove from the fire, let it stand five minutes, strain through a jelly-bag into a mould, and turn out when cold.