[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: English food revisited

[Lee Storm (God Is The Healing Force)]

| Geoff:
| > > With regard to jelly, the word is not used on the context you
| > > give but usually refers to the packet jellies which are made 
| > > up with boiling water and used in trifles of combined with 
| > > fruit such as peaches or pears as a pudding.
|  
| > bboyminn: 
| > You mean 'jelly' is Jell-o. I know Jell-o is a brand name, but 
| > at least where I am, it is the name used for all fruit flavored
| > horse hooves with a jelly-like consistency. 
| 
| Geoff:
| I'm sorry, I don't understand your reference to "all fruit flavoured
| horse hooves"?

[Lee]:
I know we've had this discussion before; I found lots of it in my saved
messages. <Grin>

Okay, "Jelly" is the transparent gelatinous-type stuff used as a spread for
toast, etc.; jelly doesn't have fruit bits or peels or anything one can chew
on.

"Jam" and "Preserve" spreads have fruit bits and/or peels.

What Geoff calls "Jelly" is what we call powdered gelatin which does, as
Steve stated, contain hoof stuff.  However, there are other ways of making
it, I believe, but I don't have a headful of info just now.  Jell-O is the
brand name, but there are other makes of the stuff.  With this gelatin
powder, much of which is fruit-flavored, one can make various desserts,
molded salads, etc.

Hope things start to jell with this explanation. <BEG>

Lee :-)

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