a sweet, clear or translucent food made by boiling sugar with fruit juice and pectin
from Old French gelee 'frost, jelly', from geler 'to freeze', from Latin gelare
Jelly comes from the French word for 'frozen' because early jellies were set by cooling, not the pectin we use today - it's basically controlled freezing without ice!
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