Fruit Juice Jelly

Years ago, when I visited my aunt in Ootacamund in the mid-seventies, my eye fell on a five-sided aluminum Mickey Mouse mold with Mickey on top, and Minnie, Goofy, Donald Duck, Pluto, and Mickey again on the sides. Unbelievable. I asked Mani Masi if she would consider parting with it. It was the jelly mold of my happy early childhood and is still in use here in San Francisco.

Molded desserts are old-fashioned, certainly, but so much fun. The Mickey Mouse mold probably held many jell