calf's-foot

She had an uncanny ability to sniff out a sick animal and it was not uncommon when I was on my rounds to find Mrs. Donovan's dark gypsy face poised intently over what I had thought was my patient while she administered calf's-foot jelly or one of her own patent nostrums.

Favourite Dog Stories Herriot, James 1995

_Meat_: roasted or boiled beef; mutton; venison; calf s head; tongue; sweetbread; lamb chops; squab; roasted partridge; pigeon; calf's-foot jelly; Armour & Co. 's Vigoral; Valentine's or Wyeth's beef juice, or Wiel's beef jelly.

Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis

Then boil down the strained liquor to half of its bulk and add its own weight of calf's-foot jelly; season with allspice or white pepper and boil down to the consistence of jelly.

Mushrooms: how to grow them a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure William Falconer

The dessert would be a plum pudding, clear stewed apples with cream, with a waiter in the centre filled with calf's-foot jelly, syllabub in glasses, and cocoanut or cheesecake puddings at the corners.

Plantation Sketches Margaret Devereux

As 'elpless as' ot calf's-foot jelly, old man, and about as much use.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 7, 1892 Various

On entering the parlor, Captain Dobbs caught a view of himself in a large mirror, and saw to his dismay that he had not escaped the usual fate of gallants who endeavor to make themselves agreeable to the ladies in a crowded supper-room; lumps of blanc-mange adhered to his shirt bosom; particles of calf's-foot jelly coruscated like gems on his patent-leather gaiters, and quivering oysters hung tenaciously to his coat sleeves.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

To this day, Thomas K. Reed, of San Jose, who was then a tiny three-year-old, can not endure the sight of calf's-foot jelly, or of similar dishes, because of its resemblance to the loathed food which was all his mother could give him in the cabins at Donner Lake.

History of the Donner Party, a Tragedy of the Sierra

"Ain't Mrs. Pennycook been down with a plate o 'calf's-foot jelly or somethin' o 'that nature?" he asked.

The Long Chance 1918

"It's like calf's-foot jelly -- a man bogs down to his waist in it."

The Iron Trail Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

To-day, even, to Pollyanna's huge delight, she had said that she was glad Pollyanna brought calf's-foot jelly, because that was just what she had been wanting -- she did not know that Milly, at the front door, had told Pollyanna that the minister's wife had already that day sent over a great bowlful of that same kind of jelly.

Pollyanna 1912