Tastes of Strawberries (Hartley's Strawberry Jelly Block)

Member Name: mumsymary

Product:	Hartley's Strawberry Jelly Block
Date:	07/01/09 (338 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: good jelly

Disadvantages: none

Red jelly, strawberry jelly is often a favorite amongst children Hartley's make strawberry jelly tablets so you can make your own. I usually use a cheaper jelly than Hartley's, Hartley's jelly is 34 p for 13g Tescos own 19p for 135g.

It is a while since I have had a Harleys Strawberry jelly but mum always seemed to buy Hartley's jellies in preference to others.

Hartley's is a good jelly tastes really strawberry like , smells of strawberries and has a good consistency.

Strawberry jelly is good used to make a trifle with or just a standard jelly I remember num making rabbit jelly moulds for my childhood teas. This jelly is delicious served with fresh strawberries or with a tin of strawberries added to the jelly. You could make a strawberry jelly fluff too.

The Strawberry jelly as you would expect comes in a red pack with pictures of strawberries on it, open and the red coloured jelly is covered in a see through plastic wrapper.
The rectangle of jelly is made up of cubes that need pulling apart from each other. I guess it was made in a mold,

This jelly does smell of strawberries when you pull one of the cubes off the jelly and smell it, I always pops one cube in my mouth. I can never, not do that. The taste is really strawberry like.

I pull the rest of the jelly cubes apart and put them in a Pyrex measuring jug but any jug or bowl will do.

I put the kettle onto boil and put just enough and a bit more boiling water (under570ml 1 pint) in to cover the jelly. I then stir the jelly in the water till it melts then fill up with cold water to 570ml /1pint. The strawberry smell from this jelly is really lovely get the juices flowing.
Put in fridge to set takes an hour or two
This jelly can now be put onto a trifle into a mold, bowl or indivual pots for school lunches. Or make a jelly fluff. This is made by whipping up evaporated milk adding some strawberries and adding cool jelly and whisk again. Quantities 275ml Water [boiling]; 175ml Half Can of Evaporated Milk; 145g tin strawberries


As I sat and watched the telly,
I tried to make a rhyme with jelly,
It was very smelly but did not fall into my welly,
This great big bowl of strawberry jelly,
Went straight into my belly

Summary: A tablet of strawberry jelly to make your own jellies from