calf 's-foot jelly

[ kavz-foot, kahvz-, kafs-, kahfs- ]

noun

1. jelly made from the stock of boiled calves' feet.

Word History and Origins

Origin of calf 's-foot jelly¹

First recorded in 1765–75

Example Sentences

As soon as cold, cut the cover all around and remove it; fill the empty places with meat or calf's-foot jelly and put it on the dish.

From Project Gutenberg

Make some meat jelly or calf's-foot jelly, put a thickness of about three-quarters of an inch of it in a tin dish or mould, large enough to hold the fillet; then place on ice to cool, and when congealed and firm enough, place the fillet on it, the larded side downward; fill now with jelly till the fillet is covered, and have a thickness of about three-quarters of an inch above it.

From Project Gutenberg

I mean to say, I can't help saying to myself, 'How nice of you, my dear, to come into this stuffy room and spend your money on fresh eggs and calf's-foot jelly for this unpleasant old thing.'

From Project Gutenberg

As good humanitarians they would continue to "give aid" to China, with something of the air of a squire's lady bringing calf's-foot jelly to the drunken and dissolute mother of 13.

From Time Magazine Archive

This film appears like an ill-cleared piece of calf's-foot jelly spread over the eye, but does not strike you as a natural part of the fish, but rather as something extraneous.

From Project Gutenberg