Orange Jelly, Creole Style

Gelee a l’Orange a la Creole

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in

By The Times Picayune Publishing Company

Published 1901

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Ingredients

  • 6 Louisiana Oranges
  • ½ Box of Gelatine
  • ½ Gill of Curacoa
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Method

Extract the juice of the Oranges. Soak the gelatine, if prepared, and set the bowl in boiling water till the gelatine melts. Then add the juice of the Orange, and add sugar to taste. Add a wineglassful of best Curacoa, and strain the Jelly through a coarse piece of Swiss. Set it in a mold to harden.

The Creoles have a pretty way of making baskets out of the Oranges