Brawn like my mother

Dad had a butcher in a small village and a girl, I see my mother's jelly. He used to cook ox trot for hours in a large pot on the old wood stove. If it is so soft that the bones were quite clean, they took the soft mass of flesh and muscle, has chopped and mixed with the clear broth in the pot left. This was magically a stiff jelly in the refrigerator.

As a young mother I saw them make jelly for the church bazaar in trying to keep my two activeYouth out of trouble. Now, several years after his death that I only cook for me and I try, the taste of gelatin are used for the precise wording has not been written to imitate. And 'even now are so few people still are.

Pressure Cooker

Brawn is so simple and fast, if prepared in a pressure cooker and I found it really nice to have a standby at home.

You will need:

1 kg leg of purified ox good. (I'll buy it frozen in the supermarket butcher Enough waterCover the trotters in a pressure cooker Salt and pepper 1 or 2 tablespoons of vinegar per liter of water

I remember my mother's jelly had a slightly acid flavor, and I read that vinegar calcium leached from the bones. But was born in 1903 and his mother 25 years earlier, we now know where housewives did in the 19 century in this regard?

Method:

Cook the jelly in a pressure cooker about 11 / 2 - 2 hours Cool down with the lid until the content is just enough for coolingHandle Filter and remove the bones Chop very soft solids and put it back in stock button pay more and more salt if needed in a container of your choice. Mine goes in the refrigerator in an oblong Pyrex baking dish with foil blanket.

When set, there is a thin layer of soft fat, which can be easily removed before serving. It is not freeze well.

Spices can vary, and today I put an onion with a clove, a few peppercorns and some herbs such as thyme and a branchRosemary for some subtle extra flavor. I only use legs of beef and shin of beef and my mother does when she made jelly for the church bazaar. I prefer the clear, jelly soft texture debris came off the bone, as they used to do in my early childhood.

Sometimes jelly that contains meat curries and breads in fixed form and is ready to serve in thin slices. Others prefer to add squares of ham or other meat, boiled eggs, finely choppedchopped parsley, diced cooked vegetables such as beets and multicolored cucumbers, carrots and peas.

Personally, I long for the taste of early childhood, when I tried tasted what my mother in the house of his parents' farm in the family, as she watches her mother make jelly. Maybe the vinegar has been used as preservatives in the days before refrigeration, therefore, used the spicy flavor of gelatin Ma?

Have fun!

Brawn like my mother

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