This recipe for Strawberry Gelatin was first published by Artusi more than a century ago, and has been reworked or borrowed by a great many other cookbook authors since then. Including me.
Prep Time: 45 minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes
Ingredients:
- 2/3 pound (300 g) hulled strawberries
- 1/2 an ounce (10 grams) fish glue in sheets (soaked in a little warm water to soften it),
- Or: or 1.5-2 tablespoons powdered gelatin (follow the directions on the package)
- 1 cup (200 g) sugar
- 1 1/4 cups (300 ml) water
- 3 tablespoons rum (I'd use light)
- The juice of a lemon
- A finely woven muslin bag
- Four small gelatin molds
- 1/4 pound (100 g) wild strawberries, as garnish
Preparation:
Clean and hull the strawberries, then chop them and put them in the bag. Wring out the bag over a bowl so as to extract all the juice from the strawberries.
Dissolve the sugar in 2/3 cup of water and simmer the mixture until the syrup thickens somewhat (go by eye).
Stir the syrup into the strawberry juice and add the lemon juice too.
Heat the remaining water and dissolve the gelatin in it. Stir the dissolved gelatin into the strawberry syrup, mixing thoroughly, and then stir in the rum as well. Moisten the molds with water and pour the syrup into them. Chill for two hours, unmold, and serve with the wild strawberries.
The wine? An Aleatico would be nice here.
Note: it will be easier to unmold the gelatin if you wipe the cups with a cloth dipped in hot water.
Dissolve the sugar in 2/3 cup of water and simmer the mixture until the syrup thickens somewhat (go by eye).
Stir the syrup into the strawberry juice and add the lemon juice too.
Heat the remaining water and dissolve the gelatin in it. Stir the dissolved gelatin into the strawberry syrup, mixing thoroughly, and then stir in the rum as well. Moisten the molds with water and pour the syrup into them. Chill for two hours, unmold, and serve with the wild strawberries.
The wine? An Aleatico would be nice here.
Note: it will be easier to unmold the gelatin if you wipe the cups with a cloth dipped in hot water.
