Hartley's Orange Jelly Block

No child's birthday party is complete without a jelly, but I have a sneaky feeling that jelly may be a bit old hat now. Times have changed and we have so many children's birthday parties being held in upmarket venues with magicians and entertainers, only recently I went to a great nephews party at a Play Centre, the party had a Pirate theme, a beautiful Birthday cake complete with Pirate and parrot sitting on top. My how times have changed lol. Our little soirees to celebrate a child's birthday included sausages on sticks, cheese and pineapple on sticks, tiny sandwiches, sausage rolls and Jelly! complete with ice cream. No conjurer just `Stick the tail on the ...  Read the complete review

I used a Hartley's orange jelly to make a trifle, I like orange trifles added some orange segments to it as well as the trifle sponge m custard and cream. Yes I bought this jelly in Tesco's with my other food shopping cost 35p for the 135 tablet of jelly. I notice that my local spar shop sold it too. The Orange jelly as you would expect comes in an orange pack, open and the jelly is covered in a see through plastic wrapper. The Orange jelly is coloured orange naturally no artificial colours or flavours in this jelly. The rectangle of jelly is made up of cubes that need pulling apart from each other. I guess it was made in a ...  Read the complete review

Have you tasted jelly recently? Well it might be worth another try, and as a standard 135g tablet jelly only costs around 35p, you have nothing to lose. This size makes about a pint. You have to think ahead a little to allow it to set, as you would expect its simple to make, either the more traditional method of breaking up the jelly into cubes, adding about 270ml boiling water, stirring a lot until the cubes dissolve, and making up to a pint with cold water then leaving a few hours to set, or you might find it quicker to put the jelly cubes into about 100ml cold water then heating in the microwave for about a minute, (based on a 750g oven.), then making up to a pint ...  Read the complete review

I love jelly and there is something so special about making it from scratch. There are many versions of jelly in the Hartley's range including ready to eat pots and low calorie versions however the most traditional and my favourite are the blocks you have to make yourself. One flavour I have tried is the orange! The jelly can be found in all supermarkets including Tesco, Asda, Ocado etc. They can be found in the aisle alongside all other jellies and products such as angel delight. In Tesco they are often along the frozen aisle in their own little shelves. Outside the freezers of course! They come in a pack weighing 135g, and this costs only 31p. I think this ...  Read the complete review