Take a large chicken, cut it up into very small pieces, bruise the
bones, and put the whole into a stone jar with a cover that will
make it water tight. Set the jar in a large kettle of boiling
water, and keep it boiling for three hours. Then strain off the
liquid, and season it slightly with salt, pepper, and mace; or
with loaf-sugar and lemon juice, according to the taste of the
person for whom it is intended.
Return the fragments of the chicken to the jar, and set it again
in a kettle of boiling water. You will find that you can collect
nearly as much jelly by the second boiling.
This jelly may be made of an old fowl.