Have you ever wondered how Jelly was made before it came in handy dissolvable cubes? I thought I'd dig out a recipe and have a go at making jelly from scratch.
Stuff we used:
8 Juicy Organic Oranges
1 Organic Lemons
About 50g of Icing Sugar
Packet of powdered gelatin
What we did:
1. First juice the oranges and the lemon. Get all the juice out you can, you'll need just under a pint in total. If you're short of this you may want to squeeze a bit more. Put the juice into a jug.
2. Whisk the icing into the the orange juice until it dissolves. Taste it, and if it's not sweet enough, add a bit more.
3. Make up the gelatin solution according to the packet instructions.
4. Add the gelatin solution into the orange juice and mix well.
5. Pour the the orange juice/gelatin mix into you mould of choice, then stick it in the fridge and wait.
Verdict from the JellyLab
Although the Jelly looked fantastic, JellyMonsterJnr's didn't rate this very highly. It had a strong orangey punch in flavor and not that much of a wobble. However, I'm not entirly sure that I got the gelatin mixture quite right. So future experiments will follow.
Scores out of 10
2 Taste
3 Wobble
5 Fun (a few extra marks for squeezing oranges)
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