Re: [london.food] Vodka jelly babies

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From: Martin Frost
Subject: Re: [london.food] Vodka jelly babies
Date: 15:02 on 23 Mar 2004

Billy Abbott wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, David Cantrell wrote:

>>Does anyone know how to make alcoholic jelly babies?

> no, but if you put a gummi bear in a glass of water for a couple of hours
> it grows to be many times its original size. Unfortunately it loses
> structural integrity and can't be removed with dissolving.
> 
> You could probably pack a vodka filled glass with gummibears...but you'd
> be forced to drink rather than chew them.

Hmmm. How about if you removed some of the bears' moisture beforehand, then
soaked them in vodka until they had grown back to their original size and
moisture content?

You could probably dry them out in a microwave if you were careful. Probably
you should let them cool before soaking them in the vodka.

[standard disclaimers apply as always]

--m

There's stuff above here

Re: [london.food] Vodka jelly babies Billy Abbott 14:55 on 23 Mar 2004
no, but if you put a gummi bear in a glass of water for a couple of hours
- Martin Frost 15:02 on 23 Mar 2004
  Hmmm. How about if you removed some of the bears' moisture beforehand, then
  - Peter Sergeant 15:10 on 23 Mar 2004
    Aren't they covered in magic sugary dust? Drying them, then soaking them
    - too deep to show
- Lucy McWilliam 13:01 on 26 Mar 2004
  To make vodka teast nice, add a bag of Fox's glacier mints to a
  - Nigel Rantor 16:08 on 29 Mar 2004
    You're sick in the head!! Sick I say!!!
Bob Walker 15:02 on 23 Mar 2004
have them born and raised by alcoholic jelly parents
KAY WISTOW A15 15:31 on 23 Mar 2004
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- Joel Bernstein 15:35 on 23 Mar 2004
  It doesn't. But why would that stop it bonding with gelatin?
- Simon Wistow 15:58 on 23 Mar 2004
  That's why you don't replace too much of the water with vodka and
  - candace 16:14 on 23 Mar 2004
    grain alcohol.
- David Cantrell 16:05 on 23 Mar 2004
  It does, although it freezes at *much* lower temperatures than water.
Richard Tunnicliffe 16:01 on 23 Mar 2004
Could you not just make up ordinary bouze jelly and dump a load of extra

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