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Jellophile
the Jellomaniac's Manual
Volume 1
C.M.J. Boston Baden, the Jell-O Maven,
hazelweb at boston-baden.com
Rev. 02-Feb-2004
Welcome, Playboy readers.
The February 2004 Playboy Advisor
column has a typo in the
Margarita Jell-O Recipe.
It should call for 1 large box of Lime Jell-O, not
4 cups of Lime Jell-O! (The large box is the 4-cup size.)
Also I now recommend using 1 cup of cold water, not 1 1/4 cup, because that gives you
a little wiggle room for adding extra ingredients (like with the strawberry
variation.)
Introduction | A-E |
F-P |
Q-Z |
Non-alc.
|
Other Recipes |
Pudding
|
Tips |
FAQ |
History |
Flavors |
Want Ads |
Links |
Gallery |
Index |
liquor |
misc. ingredients
Jell-O, as in Jell-O Brand Gelatine Dessert,
is a trademark of
Kraft General Foods
(800-431-1001).
Table of contents
- May 1997
- Last major addition to website.
- January 2004
- The February 2004 issue of Playboy is
out, and they mention the website.
We haven't seen a big spike in the
website's traffic yet - we usually get about 900 to 1900 hits a day on an average day,
9000 hits a day during peak periods (such as December 30 and 31, when everyone's
mixing up desserts for New Year's Eve), and it hasn't gone up yet. But I expect
it will..
(Neepery note: "Hit" is defined as
grep -c "GET /hazel/Jello" /var/log/httpd/access_log -- but if that doesn't mean anything to you,
don't worry about it.)
- The February 2004 Playboy Advisor
column has a typo in the
Margarita Jell-O Recipe.
It should call for 1 large box of Lime Jell-O, not
4 cups of Lime Jell-O! (The large box is the 4-cup size.)
Also I now recommend using 1 cup of cold water, not 1 1/4 cup, because that gives you
a little wiggle room for adding extra ingredients (like with the strawberry
variation.)
- The JELLO mailing list is back up, after (mumble) years of being out of
order. Send a blank message to
jello-subscribe@bostonbaden.com
to sign up. You'll get a confirming message which you'll need to reply to, and then
you'll be on the list.
- Cleaned up som bit rot. That is, I updated the URLs for:
"Boat Drinks";
Jimmy Buffett Web Page (soasoas.com is
dead, but Dave April recommends the "Church of Buffett, Orthodox").
A friend (Thomas Benson) gave me a copy of
"Party Shots"
by Mittie Hellmich.
It's full of Jell-O shot recipes. They're generally stronger, and more complicated,
than my recipes. For example the Margarita recipe (Cactus Quickie, page 14 -- the first
recipe in the book)
is two and half times stronger than mine, and calls for fresh lime and orange juice
in addition to the Lime Jell-O. If you want to buy a copy through Amazon.com, they'll give me a few
cents which we'll apply to the maintenance of this server...
- Another book I found on Amazon is
Party Shooters:
Jell'd Shots with Spirit
by Janis Marie Gasparovic.
It says it has 102 recipes for Jell-O shooters.
We're mentioned in
Jell-O, A Biography
by Carolyn Wyman. She's a little snarky, but what the hell...
- Website traffic is up a little, but not as big as holiday
traffic. The table here has our Jell-O related
hits (see 15-Jan-2004 entry) rounded down to hundreds.
So for example 1499 hits would be listed as 1400.
| week |
Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | notes |
| 15-21 Dec | 1300 | 1400 | 1200 | 2000 | 2100 |
2200 | 1200 |
|
| 22-28 Dec | 1700 | 2600 | 2000 | 900 | 1400 |
1700 | 1900 |
2000 hits on Christmas eve, only 900 on Christmas Day. |
| 29 Dec - 04 Jan | 4100 | 9600 | 9500 | 900 | 1000 |
900 | 700 |
Look at that spike ending New Year's Eve! |
| 05-11 Jan | 600 | 600 | 800 | 1000 | 1400 | 1300 |
800 |
Playboy hit the stands, with our URL. |
| 12-18 Jan | 1000 | 1300 | 1200 | 1500 | 2000 |
1800 | 1000 |
| 19-25 Jan |
1000 | 900 | 1200 | 1200 | 1500 | 1700 | 900
| |
| 26 Jan - 01 Feb |
1000 | 1300 | 1300 | 1700 | 2200 | 3200 | 1200
| The Super Bowl was on Sunday the 1st of February. |
| 02-08 Feb |
700 | | | | | |
| |
Statement of Ownership
This document is owned by C.M.J. (Chaz) Boston Baden, hazelweb at boston-baden.com, also
known as "Hazel." I have
compiled it myself from several sources: my own research; other jello fans
mostly on EAT-L, FOODWINE, alt.fan.jimmy-buffett, and BUFFETT; and recipes
I've created based on others' suggestions and feedback.
I am also indebted to
Toby Gibson,
toby-g at uic.edu, for his reference book
"Boat Drinks,"
and David April,
april at igcom.net, who first asked
permission
to put the
Margarita Jell-O recipe
recipe on the Parrot(t)heads'
Jimmy Buffett Web Page.
The participants on the EAT-L and FOODWINE mailing list have been tolerant
of my unusual hobby, and have dubbed me the Jell-O Maven. The Parrottheads on
alt.fan.jimmy-buffet and the BUFFETT mailing list have taken to
Margarita Jell-O
like a duck to water, and have been advertising the recipe far and
wide...
Thanks also to Pat Larson (nee Pat Lawrence),
for reasons she'd know best.
(Ahh, why be coy about it. She was my most enthusiastic taste-tester,
before she got married and moved away.)
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All-Purpose Alcoholic Jell-O Recipe
- Large box of Jell-O
- 2 cups boiling water
- 1 1/2 cups cold water
- 1/2 cup liquor, up to 80-100 proof
Here's the basics for alcoholic "Tiddly Jell-O." The principle
is to substitute liquor for an equivalent volume of part of the
water. The trick is not to overdo it.
I recommend making this substitution for 1/8 to 1/4 of the liquid
volume. For a large box of Jell-O (4 cups liquid) that means
substituting between 1/2 cup and 1 cup of water with liquor.
I use 1/2 cup for 40-proof booze, 1/4 cup for 80-proof.
For metric jelly
packets that make 400 ml of dessert, substitute 100 ml of 40
proof (20% alc.) liqueur, *or* 50 ml of (80 proof) 40% alc. liquors such
as gin.
The "recipe" part comes into play by judicious choices of the
Jell-O flavor and the liquor or liqueur. For example, we have found
that Orange (or
Cherry)
Jell-O and Brandy works well.
And Peach Jell-O and
Bourbon
(such as Rebel Yell or Jack Daniels) is good.
And Watermelon Jell-O
and Midori
Melon Liqueur (my
"meloncoholic"
version), and Raspberry Jell-O
with Raspberry Schnapps. Get the
idea?
I stumbled onto the discovery that the Sugar Free jell-o is a
lot easier to work with, because there's less powder to mix
up and dissolve. (The regular Jell-O has ten times as much!)
March 1994, Chaz Boston Baden, P.O. Box 17522, Anaheim CA 92817-7522
Tiddly Jell-O Notes (Baden)
If you are using a special kind of booze
(Everclear, for example)
calculate the water substitution like this: Divide the proof by 10
(or divide the alcohol percentage value by 5%); then divide the total volume of
water (in cups or ml) called for in the jell-o directions, by this number.
Round off the arithmetic; this is bartending, not nuclear chemistry.
This gives you
the volume (in cups or ml) of booze to use, and how much to decrease the
water by. (If using American-style Jell-O,
reduce the cold water by the appropriate fraction of the total amount of
water;
for other jelly packets,
just decrease the boiling water and mix in the
booze after you've dissolved the jelly powder.)
The figures shown are for a small metric (400 ml) and for large american
(4 cups: 8 servings)
sizes; alcohol percentages and proofs are shown, and how much of the water
should be exchanged for booze. If you have a small american box, take
the large figures (in cups) and divide by two; or, use two boxes.
Booze Alc. Water Subst. Small: 400 ml Large: 4 cups
30-proof Liqueur 15% alc. 1/3 133 ml 1 1/3 cup
40-proof Liqueur 20% alc. 1/4 100 ml 1 cup
50-proof liqueur 20% alc. 1/4-1/5 80-100 ml 1 cup
80-proof Liquor 40% alc. 1/8 50 ml 1/2 cup
90-proof Liquor 45% alc. 1/8-1/10 40-50 ml 1/2 cup
100-proof Booze 50% alc. 1/10 40 ml 1/3 cup
150-proof Booze 75% alc. 1/15-1/16 25 ml 1/4 cup
190-proof Hooch 95% alc. 1/20 20 ml 1.5 oz. (shot)
Find the approximate alcohol level, and substitute the booze for the
corresponding amount of water... (cold water with the US Jell-O, or just use
less boiling water for jelly packets). Note that if you're using
Everclear,
you should just put one shot in a large batch of Jell-O.
April 1994
Make them stronger, and chill them in small individual servings.
For jell-o shots, substitute booze for 2/3 of the cold water, or in
other words 1/3 of the total volume of liquid.
As for the story of how I got involved...
I was reading an advice column in a magazine.
(It was the Playboy Advisor, if you must know.)
The reader who wrote in
essentially asked "what's the deal with jello shots." The columnist
explained that you make your jello but you substitute booze for part of
the water -- a high proportion of the water, I might add -- and let it
set in individual servings
(for example, in an ice cube tray). The end
of the reply had the columnist suggesting combining compatible flavors,
like orange and
Vodka, or
Lime and
Tequila...
I decided this sounded interesting, and decided to cut back on the
percentage of alcohol. I basically tinkered and changed the "shots" to
an alcoholic dessert. (Shots get you drunk too quickly and with less
enjoyment of the process, in my correct and unbiased opinion.) :)
I tried some basic combinations, somewhat timidly --
Raspberry Schnapps
with Raspberry Jell-O,
orange brandy (Grand Marnier)
with Orange Jell-O, and
so forth. I took it to parties, it was well received.
I then decided to tackle the margarita question.
Unfortunately, I'm not a
margarita drinker and don't care for
Tequila,
despite having a bottle
given to me many years ago on my 21st birthday. I had to research
margarita recipes... found out an important ingredient, besides
lime juice
and Tequila,
was the
orange liqueur:
(Triple Sec,
usually, but you could use Cointreau
or Conroy's if you want to be autentico). Sources differed
on the proportions of Tequila
to Triple Sec ...
1:1, 3:1... so I made it
2:1. And didn't make it too strong, and served it up as jello, and took
it to a party, and everyone loved it... Voila, ipso facto, q.e.d.,
Margarita Jell-O
was born.
Also: among science fiction fans, "Lime Jell-O"
has a special connotation
dating back to an incident at a science fiction convention where an author
was speculating out loud on things you might be able to do with a bathtub
full of lime jello and a partner of the appropriate gender. He got back
to his room that night and found his tub, full... finding a partner was
presumably his department...
So after a decade or two of this being part of the lore, I thought it high
time that someone promote another adults-only way to enjoy
Lime Jell-O.
I did not come up with the idea of combining alcohol and gelatine.
Unknown unsung college fratboys
probably have that distinction, with their
experiments in using a gallon of Vodka (or
Everclear: 190-proof grain
alcohol) and adding jello box after jello box until it sets. Not my
style; I just came up with this diluted set of proportions for the
margarita flavor.
That's how I got started...
May 1994
Introduction | A-E |
F-P |
Q-Z |
Non-alc.
|
Other Recipes |
Pudding
|
Tips |
FAQ |
History |
Flavors |
Want Ads |
Links |
Gallery |
Index |
liquor |
misc. ingredients
The Jellophile / C.M.J. (Chaz) "Hazel" Boston Baden /
hazelweb at boston-baden.com
Chaz ("Hazel") Boston Baden
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