Marmalade worms are a favorite treat not only for children but also for adults. However, few people know that modern worms contain various artificial additives, including dyes, thickeners and starch, which negatively affect human health.
But what if you so want to enjoy this sweetness? There is a solution - prepare the worms yourself, using natural ingredients. The most common recipes and tips for making marmalade worms at home are compiled in this article.
Composition and origin of marmalade
Before you take on the preparation of goodies, you should find out what these cute marmalades include. The composition of modern marmalade worms includes: sugar, starch, gelatin, synthetic dyes and flavorings. However, earlier this sweet was prepared exclusively from natural products. So, for example, in France, where chewing marmalade first appeared in the 18th century, it was made from quince and apples. According to some versions, the “ancestor” of marmalade is the eastern sweetness of Turkish delight, which has been prepared for thousands of years from rose water, fruits, starch, honey and other natural ingredients.
In Europe, chewing marmalade was discovered only in the 14th century. Local chefs tried different ways of making this sweet and thus came to the conclusion that quince, apples and apricots should be taken as the basis for marmalade. Only thanks to these fruits did the mixture acquire the desired consistency, as it turned out later, due to the substance they contained - pectin.
Beneficial features
Natural pectin is not only an excellent thickener, but also an extremely beneficial component for human health, which helps to free the body from toxins, decay products, excess cholesterol, heavy metals and other harmful substances. However, with the launch of mass production of marmalade, natural pectin began to be replaced by artificial pectin, which, unfortunately, does not possess such properties.
Marmalade worms at home
To be sure of the quality and naturalness of your favorite treat, you can cook it yourself, especially since this does not require much time and effort. There are many recipes for making this sweet, consider the most popular of them.
So, how to make marmalade worms? This will require the following ingredients:
- 2 sachets of gelatin;
- 500 grams of cherry or any other fruit and berry puree;
- 200 grams of sugar;
- water;
- natural dyes upon request.
It is necessary to dilute the gelatin with water and put it to swell. Strain the puree through gauze in a saucepan, add sugar to it and boil until it is completely dissolved. Pour gelatin into boiling syrup, wait until it dissolves.
To form the worms, parchment is required. Roll the paper into tubes, arrange in a shallow pan close to each other. Pour the gelatin mass into the tubes, wait until completely solidified. Delicious homemade marmalade worms are ready! It remains to open the parchment and get the finished product.
Unusual recipe
Those who have already searched the Internet for information on how to make marmalade worms at home, more than once could see the unusual technology for preparing this delicacy from beets. Such worms are tasty, healthy and will surely appeal to kids. To prepare them you will need:
- 600 grams of beets;
- 30 ml of lemon juice;
- 10 grams of ginger root;
- 120 ml apple juice;
- 100 grams of sugar;
- 24 g pectin.
Rinse the beets, wrap in foil and put in the oven for 80 minutes. Throughout the baking process, the temperature in the oven should be 200 degrees. Cool the finished beets, grind in a blender until puree. Grate apples on a coarse grater, put on cheesecloth. Squeeze apple juice through it, add it to beetroot puree.
Finely grate ginger root, mix with lemon juice, add the resulting mixture to the rest of the puree. Add pectin, stir, put on a stove, bring to a boil. Add sugar to the prepared liquid and boil for another five minutes.
Place cocktail tubes in a separate container, pour the sweet mixture into them. Send the received "worms" to the refrigerator for three hours.