Jelly made from old Boots
Tk» rendei: may stare, but science guiles supreme and asserts very empkatioaily that a toothsome delicacy can W made from oW boots. Some time ago a doctor regaled some friends «ot merely with boot jelly. but With shirt coffee, and the repast; ;was pronounsed by all partakers excellent. The doctor says that ho made the jelly by first cleaning the boot, and subsequently boiling it with s'oda, under a pressure of about thirty pounds. The tannic acid in the leather, combined with salt, made tahriiite of soda, and the gelatine rose to the top, whence it waft removed and dried. From this last : with suitable flavouring material, the jelly was readily concocted. The shirt coffee, incidentally mentioned above, was sweetenod with cuff and collar sugar, both coffee and sugar - beiMg produced in the same way. The linen (after, of course, washing) was treated with nitric acid, which, acting on the lignite contained in the fibre, produced a glucose, or grape sugar* This roasted made an excellent imitation coffee, with an addition of unroastod glucose sweetened.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 179, 2 August 1904, Page 4
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180Jelly made from old Boots Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 179, 2 August 1904, Page 4
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