Jelly Tot
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Blackcurrant cordial and gelatine are set in a metal bowl, then sprinkled with homemade sugar crystals to recreate a giant Jelly Tot.
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- The ingredients were 1 litre of blackcurrant cordial at 99p, 8 sachets of gelatine at £3 and lots of sugar, maybe £1. The cordial was heated and cooled, the gelatine whisked in and the lot left to set overnight in the fridge in a metal mixing bowl exactly the shape of a jelly tot. For the crunchy sugar coating, a few cups of sugar were dampened with enough water to go sludgy and mouldable, flattened on a metal tray about half a centimetre thick and left overnight somewhere warm but not hot, the airing cupboard above the hot water tank, then broken into lentil-sized crystals. The jelly did not set well: the Vege-Gel used because the shop had no animal gelatine does not set very acidic or sugary things properly, so the tot flattened out, but sprinkled with the sugar it was still enough to give at least 100 kids a sugar high. Source 1 · Source 2 · Source 3 · Source 4
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Heat cordial and let it cool, then whisk in the geletine. Leave it to cool and set overnight in the fridge. It’s a giant bowl of very purple jelly basically, but should be dead still and unmovable, like a jellytot! Meanwhile,make the giant sugar crystals to emulate the crunchy sugar on the outside of a jellytot. To do this damn a few cups full of sugar with enough water for it to go sludgy. You should be able to…
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1 litre of blackcurrent cordial (99p)
8 sachets of geletine (£3)
lots of sugar (£1 maybe?)
Heat cordial and let it cool, then whisk in the geletine. Leave it to cool and set overnight in the fridge. It’s a giant bowl of very purple jelly basically, but should be dead still and unmovable, like a jellytot! Meanwhile,make the giant sugar crystals to emulate the crunchy sugar on the outside of a jellytot. To do this damn a few cups full of sugar with enough water for it to go sludgy. You should be able to mould it by squeezing it between your hands. flatten it all out on a metal try to about half a centimeter thick. Leave it over night somewhere warm (but not hot – you don’t want it to melt). I used the airing cupboard, balanced above the hot water tank. In the morning you can break it up into sugar crystals about the size of a lenil (I guess).
Turn out the jellytot, sprinkle the sugar on and away you go – enough Pimp’ed Tot to get at least 100 kids off their tits with a massive sugar high. Mine didn’t set very well. Aparently things that are very acidic or very sugars will not set properly with Vegetine which used (tescos didn’t have proper animal geletine) so mine flattened out which is real shame because the mould( a metal ixing bowl) is exactly the same shape as a jelly tot.
So there it is – big enough for X to the Z Xzibits!
