Summer is getting closer. A summer wardrobe has already been prepared, and everyone will meet the heat fully equipped. Many things can be postponed a bit, freeing up time for a summer vacation. That's just the holidays can not be transferred at all. Birthdays, meetings with friends, family visits. And for each such day, you must definitely prepare something special in order to once again confirm your status as a Mistress with a capital letter. But the trouble is: I don’t feel like eating in the summer, but I want to drink. A lot, often and preferably tasty. Or there is, but also something very light. And here a variety of gelatin jellies hurry to the rescue. In my opinion, this is the best summer dessert. Cool, bright, translucent, he came to us from childhood and with his appearance gives a sense of celebration.
Modern jelly, which is prepared on the basis of gelatin, appeared recently in America, in the middle of the century before last. Surprisingly, such a tasty invention for many years lay under the cloth, until a patented entrepreneur bought it. He quickly realized who to bet on, and soon all the American housewives began to keep gelatin jelly in the kitchen and delight their loved ones. I will not give here the technology for the production of gelatin, the curious can search for it on their own. But you can find out some very tasty desserts based on gelatin.
The first recipe is gelatin and champagne jelly!
For it, we need 300 milliliters of champagne, juice and zest of half a lemon, 20 grams of gelatin, 40 grams of sugar, whipped cream.
Pour half a glass of water into a saucepan, pour sugar and grated zest, boil, set aside. Add gelatin and juice, stir, strain. Add champagne to this syrup, pour into glasses and leave for 3 hours in the refrigerator. Before serving, you can decorate the top with whipped cream.
The second recipe - gelatin and currant jelly
For this recipe, any juicy berries are suitable. In this case, blackcurrant. It will need 700 grams, and another 25 grams of gelatin, 300 grams of sugar and water.
Wash, currant, put currants in a saucepan with sugar and cook over low heat, not boiling. Then wipe everything, dilute the resulting juice with water to one and a half liters. At this time, separately in a water bath in 200 grams of water to dissolve gelatin. When it is completely dissolved, strain and mix with currant infusion. Pour all together into glasses and put in the refrigerator for 6 hours. Finished jelly can be decorated with berries.
The third recipe, or how to make jelly from gelatin and milk
Two cups of milk will need one and a half tablespoons of gelatin, 50 grams of sugar and vanilla.
Leave the gelatin in cold water, as soon as it swells - drain the water. Bring the sugar and milk to a boil, add vanillin, cool slightly, add gelatin and heat to dissolve, but do not boil. Then you know.
The fourth recipe - gelatin gelatin and coffee
He needs a tablespoon of coffee (preferably freshly ground) in a glass of water, a tablespoon of gelatin and 50 grams of sugar.
Prepare gelatin (you already know how to do it), brew sweet coffee, strain it and add gelatin. Preheat gelatin to dissolve - and then according to an already familiar plan.
One of the many benefits of jelly is the variety of serving options. For example, you can make milk and coffee jelly at the same time and pour them into layers in portioned glasses, allowing everyone to sit in the refrigerator. In addition, you can make colored jellies, for example, lemon-orange-cherry and create a striped dessert from them. In the process of cooking in jelly, you can put fresh berries, pieces of fruit, due to its transparency, they will be visible. In general, using ordinary edible gelatin, you can create desserts from any liquid products. The main thing is to observe the proportions indicated on the pack of gelatin itself - and you will succeed!