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

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 Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

The dessert would be a plum pudding, clear stewed apples with cream, with a waiter in the centre filled with calf’s-foot jelly, syllabub in glasses, and cocoanut or cheesecake puddings at the corners.

From Plantation Sketches by Margaret Devereux

There being no teeth to modulate the voice, it had a mumbled fierceness, not passionate, but stern, which absolutely made me quiver like calf's-foot jelly.

From Mosses from an Old Manse and other stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Ain't Mrs. Pennycook been down with a plate o' calf's-foot jelly or somethin' o' that nature?" he asked.

From The Long Chance by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

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 William Falconer

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