Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Fruit Jellies

About once or twice a year I want eat these small square fruit jellies. When you eat these jellies, you will notice that it's not gummy because the main ingredient is agar not gelatin. I guess it is not super popular but you can always find it in stores.
Today, I tried to make this type of jelly at home. I cooked lots of agar powder, mango puree and sugar. After it cooled down, I cut it with a cookie cutter. Even though the mango jelly was a little harder than my regular jelly, It still didn't taste like the jelly I wanted.
I tried to make it once again. I cooked lemon juice, lemon peel, sugar and much more agar powder than last time. It took a long time to dissolve all of the agar powder in a small amount of water. The texture was closer to the jelly but still not quite there. Andrew liked it though and ate them all.
I learned that this jelly is difficult to make at home. I am happy to continue trying to make the jelly until I am fully satisfied.

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