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Fruit Power Pastille

by Kim Eadie 10 photos Rated 28% 457 votes when voting closed

After three months of head scratching we came up with it! No one has yet to pimp the almighty Fruit Pastille. After hard deliberation and countless tasting sessions the decision was unanimous – large the lime, grow the green, enlarge the emerald – its time to pimp the mighty green one!

Off we headed to the local supermarket with our colossal idea but our minimal budget – (hey come on I’m only 13!). Total spend equalled: £1.91 (is this the cheapest pimp yet? Do we get a badge?)

Ingredients laid out: lime jelly packets, two limes, granulated sugar, Fruit Pastille tubes and a glass dish

3 x packs of green jelly £1.14
2 x limes £0.32
500g Granulated Sugar £0.45
Water – FREE (Kindly donated by Thames water but more kindly filtered through a Brita filtering system)

First step – beg, borrow but eventually steal my sister’s casserole dish! (She’s only 22 but has three – what a geek!)

Second step – Oh come on it’s not hard is it – break the jelly up and add 140ml hot water. Hang on wait – it was that hard! Instructions were for microwave preparation only. Suggestions to stimulate the microwave experience included hair drying the bowl, putting it in the oven (quickly discounted that one!) and finally we agreed good old fashioned saucepan and oven hob!

Cubes of green lime jelly broken from the packets into a glass mixing bowl

Jelly cubes half dissolved in hot water, stirred with a spoon in a glass bowl

Hand stirring a dark jelly and sugar mixture in a saucepan on the gas hob

Third Step – Add 3x570ml of cold water – I’m pre GSCE but even I can work out that’s 1710ml (and that’s not even funded education – cha!) (At this point big sis is in confusion over modern day youth slang!)

Water poured from a measuring jug into a glass dish of bright green jelly liquid

Fourth Step (getting bored of me numbering the steps yet?) – Bung it in the fridge until it sets.

Sliding the filled glass dish of green jelly into the fridge to set

Well I’ve got bored of numbering all the steps! Anyway what was supposed to be a three hour wait turned into an overnighter due to the sheer humungousness of the power pastille! After deliberation as to how to get the pastille out of the mould (yes probably should have thought of that earlier!) we decided the casserole lid was the only viable option!

The set lime jelly disc filling a round glass dish, sitting on kitchen foil

Now for those of you questioning the limes on the shopping list, in order to recreate the true tangy, limieness of fruit pastilles this ingredient was essential (well ok it’s really so the sugar would stick to the jelly!) A generous squeeze to coat the power pastille.

Hand pressing a dark green block down into the surface of the set lime jelly

Followed by an even more generous coat of sugar!

Sugar being sprinkled by hand over the set jelly, a plateful of sugar alongside

And there we have it, a pimped up Fruit POWER Pastille!

The finished sugared giant pastille in its dish beside a normal tube and single green pastille

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