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 The acrid juice of boiled Rowan (Sorbus aucuparia, or 'mountain ash') berries formed into a jelly, usually by boiling with an approximately equal quantity of crab-apple and a little sugar. An accompaniment for strongly-flavoured meats. 2016 Rowan, or Mountain Ash Image: From geograph.org.uk, Stephen McKay Rowan has a long history of being an effective protector against enchantment, it is also, at least when uncooked, an effective laxative.  Original Receipt from 'Pot-luck; or, The British home cookery book' by May Byron (Byron 1914)649. MOUNTAIN ASH JELLY (Surrey) Pick the mountain-ash berries clean from the stalks, and stew them down to as near a pulp as you can, with enough water to cover them and a very little "race" ginger. Crush and strain the pulp, and boil it up again for half an hour, with two-thirds of its weight in sugar. (Mountain ash is known in Ireland as "quicken" and in Scotland as "rowan." It is credited with wonderfully restorative properties, and is, I believe, largely used in the jelly form upon the Continent, especially in Switzerland. Ed.) 650. ANOTHER WAY (Middlesex) Pare, core, and slice two pounds of good preserving apples of the juiciest kind, and boil them for twenty minutes or more in one quart of water, till they are well to pieces. Strain off the water, and add to the apples in the preserving pan three pounds of mountain ash berries. Let all simmer gently until quite pulped: then strain off the juice, and to every pint measure one pound of sugar. Let the juice boil fast for twenty minutes, then put in the sugar, which should be warmed and crushed. Boil for fifteen minutes more, skimming well, and then pour off the jelly into heated pots. Some people put a leaf of scented geranium, such as oakleaf, into every pot. See also: Apple Jelly Blackcurrant Jelly Calf's Foot Jelly Cumberland Hot Sauce Cumberland Sauce Currant and Port Jelly Currant Water Damson Jelly Elderberry Syrup Gloucester Jelly Hedgerow Jelly or Jam Herb Jelly Medlar Medlar Jelly Parsley Honey Parsley Jelly Port Wine Jelly Quiddany Quince Quince Jam Quince Jelly Raspberry Jelly Red Whortleberry Jelly Redcurrant Jelly Rose Jelly Rosemary Jelly Rowan Jelly Sage and Apple Jelly Sloe and Apple Jelly Sloe Jelly Sussex Place Jelly Table Jelly Thyme Jelly  |
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