Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1891 — Elephants’ Tusk Jelly. [ARTICLE]

Elephants’ Tusk Jelly.

How many people, says the Washington Star, have ever eaten jelly made from elephants’ tusks? Yet it is very good indeed. In the English factories, where many tons of ivory are sawn up annually to make handles of knives and forks, great quantities of ivory dust are obtained. The dust is sold at the rate of 6 pence a pound, and when properly boiled and prepared it makes the finest, purest and most nutritious animal jelly known. Years ago ivory jelly was a very fashionable remedy and much sought for. An average of four persons die daily in England from delirium tremens.