*Note: Carrageen is a purple-brown or green fronded
seaweed common on Scottish beaches on the mid-tide
line. It can be used to set and delicately flavour a
jelly or thicken a soup. If you gather your own
fresh, you will need about 2 oz to set a pint of milk.
Dried carrageen is available in health-food stores, or
Chinese supermarkets in processed form, as agar-agar.
**Rhubarb sticks should be sliced and lightly poached
with additional sugar.
Bring the milk to the boil with the lemon rind. Stir
in the carrageen and cook for a couple of minutes
until the milk thickens enough to coat the back of a
wooden spoon. Add sugar.
Allow the mixture to cool until it is at blood
temperature (100 F, 40 C). Whisk the egg till frothy
and then whisk in the warm milk until smooth. Pour the
mixture through a sieve into a cold-wetted ring-mould.
Then put it in the fridge to set - it will only take
about 1/2 hour.
Run hot water over the outside of the mould and turn
out the jelly. Fill the middle of the ring with a
ladleful of rhubarb compote and surround with a little
scarlet sauce of rosehip or redcurrant jelly melted in
a little hot water.
Source: Elisabeth Luard in "Country Living" (British),
February 1989. Typed for you by Karen Mintzias
