Jelly (dessert)

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Red jelly with whipped cream

red-green variant with vanilla sauce

Jelly is a dessert made from gelatine or other gelling agents , sugar , flavorings and colorings . Other names include jelly or jellyfish , and frog aspic for green jelly . Jelly is usually eaten with whipped cream or vanilla sauce . The best known are the following flavors:

• Woodruff (green)
• Raspberry (red)
• Cherry (red)
• Lemon (yellow)

The green jelly is not colored by the woodruff, but only gives the dessert its characteristic aroma. Artificial woodruff flavor is used in stores for this.

Food coloring

Jelly is mostly colored with food coloring, azo dyes are often used .

• red color: azorubine (E 122), cochineal red A (E 124), brilliant blue FCF (E 133)
• yellow color: yellow orange S (E 110), quinoline yellow (E 104)
• green color: quinoline yellow (E 104), patent blue V (E 131), yellow orange S (E 110)

Origin of the name Wackelpeter

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The name Wackelpeter comes from the 19th century, when the name Peter was often used as an addition when trying to paraphrase something joking (see also Hackepeter ). In addition, the gelatin mass vibrates ( wobbles ) when it is shaken. As jelly or -pudding also is pudding called.

Production of jelly

"Ampelpudding" - three-layer and three-colored jelly

Jelly can be made by adding gelatin powder to cooked fruit juice. Commercially available powder mixtures only have to be stirred into boiled sugar water. The gelatine takes between 12 and 24 hours to set, which is much longer than it takes for the liquid to cool. Immediate cooling does not shorten the preparation time, but saves the time for subsequent cooling.

A special type of jelly is the three-layered and three-colored (red-yellow-green) “traffic light pudding”, which is made by layering three flavors on top of each other (and cooling them down).

Jelly can be kept for a few days and then dissolves with the release of water.

Vegetarian alternatives

Vegetarians who refuse to consume gelatine can use instant products from many manufacturers. These contain vegetable gelling agents such as carrageenan or agar . They reduce the production time to a few hours, are not as firm and do not keep as long as real jelly.

Jelly with alcohol

Jelly can be prepared with alcohol instead of water. You get an alcoholic dessert (and not a drink). The preparation is only successful if the liquid when adding the spirit is not warmer than the boiling point of alcohol (78 ° C), so only part of the water used should be boiled with the jelly powder, which is then cooled by adding more cold water before adding the spirit used.

The variant with jello powder is known in the USA as Jello-Shot (named after the Jell-O jelly powder brand , which is used in the USA and Canada as a generic brand name for gelatinous desserts). In the German-speaking world, this preparation with vodka is also known as Wackelwodka , Vodka Jellies or Jelly-Shots .

Industrially manufactured products of this type are sold in tubes under various brand names.

Others

In Bielefeld , the seat of Dr. Oetker , there has been a children's cultural festival called "Wackelpeter" on the last Sunday of the summer holidays since 2002. Clowns, acrobats, walk-acts, musicians and puppeteers perform. Peter Maffay and Tatjana Oetker are the patrons of the festival with around 30,000 visitors .

There is a well-known stereotype in the United States that Mormons particularly enjoy eating jelly. In humorous recognition of this cliché, the state of Utah , which is home to a particularly large number of Mormons, debated in 2001 whether Jell-O's best-known brand of jelly should be made an “official state snack”.

Other specialties known as “jelly”

In Switzerland, jelly is a very different dessert that is related to the English trifle . It consists of rusks , vanilla cream, fruit compote (mostly applesauce, rhubarb or berries) and whipped cream. Rusks and compote are placed in layers in a bowl, poured with the cold crème or cream and then refrigerated for a few hours. Often jelly is eaten as a sweet dinner.

Another form of jelly, the “ Westphalian jelly ”, is related to this . The individual layers consist of a mixture of grated black bread with grated dark chocolate, sour cherries and whipped cream.

Web links

Commons : Jellyfish  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Editorial board: Does Jell-O belong at Legislature . In: Provo Daily Herald , February 1, 2001.