Inspector, would you or your mother please post her jelly recipe? Thanks.
No, I will not, because I value my readership to a certain extent and wish to keep them in a state of sound gastric health. Eating one of Mother Boathook’s unflavored jellies is like chewing on phlegm that has been marinated in pond water. And not the everyday normal healthy sort of phlegm, either; more like that sticky stuff that continues to coat your sinus cavities a week and a half after the initial infection is dealt with.
Look, it isn’t as though it’s some grand secret. You boil the seaweed until it expels all its unctuous slime into the foaming water. Then you ladle the selfsame unctuous slime into oiled bowls and put it in your icebox (or in cool sea-caves where iceboxes are not available). Let it sit for about an hour until it is firm, eat it, and then heave it all up into the convenient ocean and go find some actual food. The importance of this last step to the process cannot be overstated.
