Recipe Review: Strawberry Gelatin

Those strawberries we were slicing this morning were for these—light, fresh cups of homemade Jell-O for a quick weeknight dessert. We're eating as many strawberries as we can right now, and while we really wanted shortcake or maybe a whipped cream fool, this was the more sensible choice after a weekend of burgers and hot dogs.

The recipe is from Martha Stewart's Everyday Food, and it has just four ingredients: strawberries, lemon juice, sugar, and gelatin. Well, there's some water in there, too, so five.

One thing we'd pay more attention to next time is the foam. When we stirred the warm gelatin mixture and added it to the strawberry juice, we got a layer of bubbly foam that stayed put when the gelatin solidified. Not a big deal, but we might be more gentle in the future (less energetic whisking) so we get a smoother result.

• Here's the recipe: Strawberry Gelatin, from Everyday Food

We followed the recipe and added chopped strawberries on top, but these would be great with whipped cream, too. A little less healthy, but maybe you didn't eat as many burgers as we did over the weekend...

Related: Homemade Jell-O Popsicles

(Images: Elizabeth Passarella)

Comments (7)

I think the foam is kind of pretty against that red-pink gelatin!

posted by bfootnovellista on May 26th 2009 at 5:14pm
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Have you tried with less sugar? The recipe looks as if it would be very sweet.

posted by hrhprincessfiona on May 27th 2009 at 9:19am
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At work, we flame the top of stuff with agar in it with a bunsen burner to get rid of bubbles. You could do a quick pass with a kitchen blow torch and remove the bubbles similarly.

Really just another excuse to play with that blow torch.

;)

posted by sciencegeek on May 27th 2009 at 10:02am
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My grandmother always made frothy jello and I've never known how she did it (I LOVED it that way). I was thinking it had egg in it but maybe she just whisked or beat it? Does anyone know how to make it completely frothy?

posted by LKmen on May 27th 2009 at 10:17am
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i haven't had a strawberry since i learned the soil they're grown in gets sprayed with mercury. we should start seeing some local organic ones soon, though! this has been a long cold spring.

posted by darlingash on May 27th 2009 at 9:51pm
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LKmen - maybe she just added milk or heavy cream?

(I'm now thinking about doing a gradient of different ratios of jello to whipped cream just to see how it turns out)

posted by sciencegeek on May 29th 2009 at 2:26pm
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FMF... what obsession?

posted by Taratootie42 on June 2nd 2009 at 6:21pm
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