calf's-foot jelly

British  

noun

1. a jelly made from the stock of boiled calves' feet and flavourings, formerly often served to invalids

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calf's-foot jelly

Pollyanna was carrying calf's-foot jelly to Mrs. Snow to-day.

From Pollyanna by Porter, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman)

On a pleasant Thursday morning Pollyanna had been taking calf's-foot jelly again to Mrs. Snow.

From Pollyanna by Porter, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman)

This film appears like an ill-cleared piece of calf's-foot jelly spread over the eye, but does not strike you as a natural part of the fish, but rather as something extraneous.

From Notes and Queries, Number 229, March 18, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Various

She had taken some calf’s-foot jelly to Mrs. Taylor in the little house at the foot of the hill.

From Across the Years by Porter, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman)

Then boil down the strained liquor to half of its bulk and add its own weight of calf's-foot jelly; season with allspice or white pepper and boil down to the consistence of jelly.

From Mushrooms: how to grow them a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure by Falconer, William