Port Tea jelly

During the process of making Port-Tea, tea leaves usually has stem with it, which it’s bad for selling, and it cannot be rub into ball-shaped tea leafs, so Aunt Sho-Chu always keeps to herself or give to her relatives for free. Also the tea leafs with stem does not taste bad at all, so we thought we can make it to Port Tea Jelly.

>Most of the Port Tea jellies in the market are made with jelly powders, which does not have the natural sense of the tea leafs, that kind of sense you can smell makes you feel synthetic, and the sense of tea powder itself can’t compare to the natural tea leafs, at the same time it can affect the taste of the jelly, below here is the materials and methods of how we make the Port Tea jelly.

THE MATERIALS WE PREPARED

  • Port Tea leaves with stem 50g
  • Sugar 160g
  • Gelatine[Jelly powder] 40g
  • Water 2200cc
  • 10 Steaming egg cup

HOW WE MAKE IT

  • Put 75g of tea leaves into 6000cc boiled waters.
  • Then put 160g of filtered sugar into the boiled water and stir it.
  • Slowly put the 40g of Gelatine into the boiled water and stir it even.
  • Turn off the fire, and pour the tea soup liquid into the steaming egg cup for it to cool off.
  • Once it was cool off, which will turn to gel form, add a little butters, and that’s how you make the delicious Port Tea jelly.

LITTLE TIPS YOU SHOULD KNOW

  • Gelatine is an powder which turns liquid into gel form, things like we usually eat, pudding, cheese and jelly are all made of Gelatine!
  • Gelatine can only be melt with temperature above 95 degree Celsius, and can only be freeze or turn into gel form with temperature below 40 degree Celsius.
  • There are two ingredients consists in Gelatine, one is collagen inside of animals’ skin and bones and another one is substance extract from the seaweed, if anyone is vegetarian should be aware of it.
  • We wish everybody can come to Manjhou and taste the delicious Port Tea jelly we made.