Lyda recalls the days of Stagecoach Inn servers reciting the four-course menu in a heavy Texas drawl. Each meal started with hush puppies and consomme — “everybody got that,” Lyda says ...

In a large bowl, combine 1/2 cup of the tomato juice with the gelatin; let stand for 5 minutes. In a saucepan, combine the remaining tomato juice with the sugar, salt, pickling spices, hot sauce ...

Aspic: Mix gelatin with the water until softened. Add the gelatin mixture to the simmering liquid and stir well for 2 to 3 minutes to dissolve the gelatin completely.

Eat This: The Colonnade’s Tomato Aspic. The 90-year-old restaurant serves 300 orders of the old-school classic every week. By. Drew Podo-July 19, 2016. 2790. The Colonnade's Tomato Apsic.