Honey & Orange Jello

I don't know why we had so many oranges in the fridge, so the fastest way to get rid of them was to make them into jello. This is another simple recipe from the book.

The golden standard:

Picture from the book

Ingredients:

• 3.5 sheets of gelatin
• 50g cold water
• 10g granulated sugar
• 300g orange juice**
• 1tsp orange peel
• 20g honey
• 1tsp orange liquor*
• 200g (~2 oranges) fresh orange flesh**

* The book suggests to get Grand Marnier (smaller version available, but smaller version still costs $22) or rum for the orange liquor, but I went to the liquor store and the lady there told me I don't need to use an expensive vodka for desserts, so she suggested other orange liquors in the section, and I picked Triple Sec, $13.50.

** Obtain the orange segments like how you would grapefruit segments, also refer to the grapefruit post. I used about 10 oranges in total for the juice and the flesh... took quite a bit of time

Procedure:

1. Refer to 
2. Soften the 3.5 sheets of gelatin in an ice water bath, as usual
3. Melt the 10g of granulated sugar in the 50g of cold water on low heat
4. Stir in about 1/3 of the orange juice
5. Turn off the stove when the mixture is at about 40-50 degree Celsius (just about enough to melt the gelatin; just try dipping a clean finger in there, if it feels warm it's about 40 degree Celsius)
6. Add the 1tsp of orange peel
7. Stir in the 20g of honey
8. Squeeze the water out of the gelatin and melt the gelatin in the mixture
9. Stir in the rest of the orange juice
10. Stir in the 1tsp of orange liquor
11. Take the orange peels out (sieve or chopstick)
12. Stir while chilling the whole thing over an ice water bath until it thickens
13. Pour the mixture into individual cups to about 70% full
14. Put the cups in the fridge to let the jello solidify
15. Add the orange segments onto the solidified jello (I usually just add them in when the mixture is still in liquid form just because I'm lazy.)

Did not take photographs of this one because the whole thing looked orange and not very interesting, but the product tasted pretty good even to a non-orange lover (me).