SC - jellies

[Heather Law]

> 
> >I understood "jelly" in British English usage to mean a hand-held sweet.
> >Do all you Americans recall Chuckles? Something along those lines...
> 
> Jelly has 3 meanings for "British English" speakers:
As for Americans
> 
> 1. A dessert also made with fruit juice and gelatine which you set in the
> fridge. Cheap variety is made with "jelly crystals" - basically gelatine,
> flavour and colour. Common child dessert (aka sweet, pudding).
We call this Jell-o, but that's a brand name. It's actually fruit
flavored gelatin.
> 
> 2. Sweets (candies), usually fruit flavoured and transluscent. The good
> quality ones are made with real fruit juice and gelatine - these are soft (about like a ripe persimmon) and usually covered in sugar (aka fruit pastilles). The cheap variety are artificially coloured and flavoured and are very chewy. You can buy jelly snakes, frogs, rats etc.

These are called fruit slices here. They don't usually taste much like
fruit, being so sweer. I did buy a box of imported berry flavored
squares which seem to be like the ones I read about in Elinor
Fettiplace's Receipt Book. They weren't sweet enough!
> 
> 3. The clear type of jam previously described on the list.
The kind you spread on toast
> 
> Rowan
Caroline
Carol Mitchell President Chicagoland Costumer's Guild
Come to the Mythcon Fantasy Masquerade July 17 in Wheaton, IL
http://home.earthlink.net/~emfarrell/mythsoc/mc29sched.html
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