Marmalade worms at home: recipes

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

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 adversely affect human he alth.

But what if you really want to enjoy this sweetness? There is a way out - to cook the worms yourself, using natural ingredients. The most common recipes and tips on how to make gummy worms at home are collected in this article.

Composition and origin of marmalade

Before you start preparing treats, you should find out what these cute gummies include. The composition of modern marmalade worms contains: sugar, starch, gelatin, synthetic colors and flavors. 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 oriental sweetnessTurkish delight, made for thousands of years with rose water, fruits, starch, honey and other natural ingredients.

Europe learned about chewing marmalade only in the XIV century. Local chefs tried different ways of preparing this sweet and thus came to the conclusion that it is necessary to take quince, apples and apricots as the basis for marmalade. It was only thanks to these fruits that the mixture acquired the desired consistency, as it turned out later, due to the substance contained in them - pectin.

Useful properties

Natural pectin is not only an excellent thickener, but also an extremely beneficial component for human he alth, which helps to rid the body of 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 with artificial pectin, which, unfortunately, does not have such properties.

Gummi worms at home

To be sure of the quality and naturalness of your favorite delicacy, you can cook it yourself, especially since it does not take much time and effort. There are many recipes for making this sweet, consider the most popular of them.

So how do you make gummy worms? This will require the following ingredients:

• 2 bags of gelatin;
• 500 grams of cherry or any other fruit and berry puree;
• 200 grams of sugar;
• water;
• optional natural dyes.

You need to dilute the gelatin with water and put it to swell. Strain the puree through cheesecloth into a saucepan, add sugar to it and boil until it is completely dissolved. Pour gelatin into boiling syrup, wait until it dissolves.

Parchment is required to form the worms. Roll the paper into tubes, place in a shallow saucepan right next to each other. Pour the gelatin mass into the tubes, wait for it to solidify completely. 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 have seen the unusual technology for making this beetroot delicacy more than once. Such worms are tasty, he althy and sure to please kids. For their preparation you will need:

• 600 grams of beets;
• 30ml lemon juice;
• 10g ginger root;
• 120 ml apple juice;
• 100 grams of sugar;
• 24g pectin.

Rinse the beets, wrap in foil and put in the oven for 80 minutes. During the entire baking, the temperature in the oven should be 200 degrees. Cool the prepared beets, grind in a blender to a puree state. Grate apples on a coarse grater, put on cheesecloth. Squeeze apple juice through it, add it to beetroot puree.

Ginger root finely grate, mix with lemon juice, add the resulting mixture to the rest of the puree. Add pectin,stir, put on the stove, bring to a boil. Add sugar to the finished liquid, boil for another five minutes.

Place the cocktail tubes in a separate container, pour the sweet mixture into them. Send the resulting "worms" to the refrigerator for three hours.