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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Example Sentences

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

Aunt Polly, please would you mind very much if I took Mrs. Snow's calf's-foot jelly this week to some one else?

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

"If you please, I've brought some calf's-foot jelly for Mr. Pendleton," smiled Pollyanna.

From Pollyanna 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