Jujubes | Jujubes Candy Recipe
Homemade chewy candies which are called as jujubes. These gelatin based jujubes are tasty and fruity.
Ingredients
- Sugar - 2 ½ cups / 500 grams
- Water - ½ cup + ½ cup
- Liquid Glucose or Corn Syrup -½ cup / 150 grams
- Agar Agar Powder or Gelatin - 50 grams
- Lemon Juice - 3 tblspn see notes
- Food Colouring yellow, red, green
- Essence - Raspberry Strawberry and Pineapple
Instructions
- Take gelatin or china grass in a bowl, add in ½ cup of water and mix well. Set aside for 10 mins.
- In a heavy bottom pan, take sugar, ½ cup of water, glucose and mix well. Put it on heat and cook on low heat till the sugar melts. Bring it to a boil.
- Boil the syrup until it reaches the hard ball stage (125°C) or you can check this by using a clean spoon when the syrup is dropped into cold water it may be formed into a hard ball.
- Now add in lemon juice and mix well. Boil it well.
- Now add in gelatin,mix and stir till it is melted.
- Divide this into three bowls and food colour and essence.
- Now pour it in greased bowls and let it dry outside overnight.
- Now cut into small pieces, and roll it in sugar.
- Store in an air tight container in fridge..
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Notes
1)Instead of lemon juice use citric acid.
2)Using agar agar will give melt in mouth jujubes. Gelatin will give gummy jujubes
3)Cook sugar syrup till it reaches hard ball stage, so it gives perfect gummy.
2)Using agar agar will give melt in mouth jujubes. Gelatin will give gummy jujubes
3)Cook sugar syrup till it reaches hard ball stage, so it gives perfect gummy.
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