Marmalade and jelly sweets like not onlychildren, but also adults. You can prepare them yourself from a simple set of products. The main thing is to follow the sequence. Jelly sweets at home are made with the help of agar-agar or gelatin. Such a delicacy can be prepared from natural berries or fruits.
To make jelly sweets in your homeconditions, you can use any berries, fruits and even vegetables. Ideally suitable carrots or pumpkin. When making a treat, you should consider the amount of pectin in berries and fruits. The more this component, the less gelatin is required. This also applies to granulated sugar. If the fruit is sweet, then you should add it less. The amount of sugar can vary depending on your own preferences.
Jelly sweets at home can becook not only from a certain kind of fruit, but also from a mixture. Delicacy can also be chocolate or milk. In such sweets are often added candied fruits, fruit puree or juice. If desired, the delicacy can be made in any shape, multilayered and even covered with glaze. For the production of jelly sweets use silicone molds.
The recipe for jelly candies, made at home, is quite simple. To prepare such a treat you need a few products. To make candy from a pumpkin, you need to have at your fingertips:
So, how to make jelly sweets in the homeconditions? First you need to prepare a pumpkin. Vegetables should be cleaned and then cut into small cubes. Shredded pumpkin should be transferred to a pan, and then covered with 0.5 kg of granulated sugar. The vegetable should be left under sugar for 8 hours. During this period the pumpkin will empty the juice. The container should be placed on a weak fire. Its contents must be boiled. After this, the pumpkin should be left for several hours, so that it cools down.
Of the remaining sugar and water is to cooksyrup. For this, the components are combined in a saucepan and placed on a fire. Half the water should boil away. Ready syrup should be cooled, and then add to the container with pumpkin. The mixture must be brought to a boil, and then removed from heat. Mass should be left for 10 hours.
Jelly sweets are prepared at homelong enough. When the pumpkin cools, you need to drain the sugar syrup, and then boil it for 20 minutes, preferably on a small fire. Then the pieces of the vegetable should be refilled with liquid. The procedure is recommended to repeat until the syrup becomes thick enough. For flavor, you can add a little orange essence to it. From the container, carefully remove the pumpkin pieces with a fork and dry them. It is recommended to store the ready-made delicacy in a glass container in the refrigerator.
To prepare a treat you will need:
Peaches must be crushed in puree.Mass is worth to pass through a sieve. This will remove the peel. In a deep saucepan, mix the puree, 100 grams of sugar and lemon juice. The mixture must be brought to a boil and cook for 15 minutes on low heat. The liquid must be completely evaporated.
Then pectin andthe remains of sugar. Mixing the mixture, under the pan it is necessary to increase the fire. Cook the treat for about 10 minutes. The mass should be thick enough. The mixture must be put in pre-prepared forms and cooled. Jelly sweets are ready. If one large form was used to prepare a treat, its contents should be cut into portions.
