{"id":6535,"date":"2008-05-01T08:40:50","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T14:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncobrief.com\/index.php\/archives\/a-disquisition-upon-jello\/"},"modified":"2008-05-01T08:40:50","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T14:40:50","slug":"a-disquisition-upon-jello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/archives\/a-disquisition-upon-jello\/","title":{"rendered":"A Disquisition Upon Jello"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And if I thought the snails at NIOSA were dubious eats,  I hadn\u2019t had a chance to grok the full horror of the guacamole bird \u2013 it\u2019s the third one down, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daniellespencer.com\/graphics\/projects\/various\/jello_turkey\/2007.htm \">here <\/a>  Found this through neo-neocon, <a href=\"http:\/\/neoneocon.com\/2008\/04\/30\/a-jello-mold-photo-a-day\/\">here<\/a>  who was running a two-part Jello retrospective. Some of the recipes which Neo\u2019s commenters recollected fondly don\u2019t seem too bad at all \u2013 the salmon mousse <a href=\"http:\/\/neoneocon.com\/2008\/04\/28\/this-isnt-about-obama-promise-its-about-jello-molds\/\">here <\/a>was especially savory<\/p>\n<p>You see, there is Jello and there is just plain gelatin mixed with a variety of sweet or savory liquids and poured into an appropriate mold. There is the stuff whipped up by the staff of women\u2019s home magazines trying to catch the eyeballs and not coincidently sell more Jello\u2026 and of late there is the parody stuff (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.prankplace.com\/brainmold.htm\">like the famous brain mold<\/a>), and a lot of bizarre things put together for contests; I have heard of Jello aquariums with lettuce for seaweed and Goldfish crackers as\u2026 er, gold fish swimming in the pale green lime depths.<\/p>\n<p>And then there is stuff like my mother\u2019s favorite \u2013 the wine-orange gelatin dessert, and my own yoghurt cream mold \u2013 I posted the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncobrief.com\/index.php\/archives\/a-girl-and-her-grill\/\">recipe in<\/a> January.<\/p>\n<p>From Joy of Cooking, p. 745 \u201cWine Gelatin\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Soak 2 TBsp gelatin in \u00bc cup cold water. Dissolve it in \u00be cup boiling water and stir in until dissolved, \u00bd cup sugar.  Allow to cool and add 1 \u00be cup orange juice, 6 TBsp lemon juice and 1 cup well-flavored wine.  Sugar amount may be adjusted if the orange juice and\/or wine are sweet . Pour into sherbet glasses and chill until firm. Serve with cream, whipped cream or custard sauce. (It strikes me that this might be very nice with blood-orange juice and a nice rose wine)<\/p>\n<p>Gelatin molds \u2013 not just for Lutheran church suppers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And if I thought the snails at NIOSA were dubious eats, I hadn\u2019t had a chance to grok the full horror of the guacamole bird \u2013 it\u2019s the third one down, here Found this through neo-neocon, here who was running a two-part Jello retrospective. Some of the recipes which Neo\u2019s commenters recollected fondly don\u2019t seem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,69,71,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aint-that-america","category-domestic","category-eat-drink-and-be-merry","category-fun-and-games","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}