jelly bag

British  

noun

1. a muslin bag used to strain off the juice from the fruit in making jelly (the preserve)

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Example Sentences

To make jelly, you have to cook crushed fruit and strain it thoroughly with cheesecloth or an appropriately named jelly bag.

From Salon

If I’m making apricot jam, I’ll slip the kernels into a jelly bag and steep them in the pot of bubbling fruit.

From New York Times

I squeeze every drop of noyau essence from the jelly bag once it’s cool, and if the preserves are still not quite heady enough, I’ll add a glug or two of the previous summer’s extract.

From New York Times

I pick them into a lard pail, then sort out the dead twigs and leaves, and my mother makes jelly from them, boiling them up, straining the pits out through a cloth jelly bag, adding sugar.

From Literature

Strain through a jelly bag, season with salt and pepper, and add gelatin which has been dissolving in a few spoonfuls of cold water.

From Project Gutenberg