Marshmallows

[angelbabe]

Originally posted by dudette
My mother used to make marshmallows when I was a child and they always used to come out delicious!
I still have the recipe, but it calls for powdered gelatin and I could only find Sheet gelatine at Tesco's.
I tried to adapt the recipe but failed, so wondered if someone could give me a general recipe for how to make marshmallows
(i.e. xxx ml water/ xxx g gelatin / xxx ml sugar, )

Help!!

Dudette, I searched through loads of recipes and they all call for powdered gelatin apart from this one.

2 cups granulated sugar
1 tablespoon corn syrup (home made corn syrup 1/2 cup sugar + 2 tbsp water = 1/2 cup light corn syrup)
1 1/2 cups water
9 sheets gelatin or 2 tablespoons gelatin powder
2 egg whites
1 cup powdered sugar
1 cup cornstarch

Method
1. Mix in a heavy-bottomed noncorrosive 2-quart saucepan the sugar, corn syrup and 3/4 cup of the water.
2. Place over medium heat and using a candy thermometer cook to 260 degrees (the hard ball stage).
3. In a bowl, bloom the gelatin sheets (or other forms of geatin) in the remaining 3/4 cup of cold water for 5 minutes.
4. (NOTE: bloom is a method of softening and swelling the gelatin so it will disolve smoothly when heated).
5. Stir the dissolved gelatin into the 260 degree sugar mixture.
6. Remove from heat and set aside.
7. Let cool for 5 minutes.
8. In a large mixing bowl using an electric mixer, beat the egg whites until they form stiff peaks.
9. Slowly pour the gelatin mixture into the egg whites.
10. Beat until cool, about 12 minutes.
11. Sift the powdered sugar and cornstarch into a bowl.
12. Using 1/4 of the sugar mix and the sifter, dust a 17 x 11 inch cookie sheet.
13. When the egg white mix is cooled, pour onto the cookie sheet and smooth out with a pastry spatula.
14. (Another option is to fill a pastry bag and pipe mixture out to desired size and shape).
15. Allow to sit for about one hour.
16. Then, using kitchen shears, cut marshmallows into appropriate size.
17. Coat marshmallows with remaining sugar/cornstarch mixture.
18. Stor marshmellows in an airtight box until ready to use in recipes or atop your favorite hot chocolate recipe.
19. Makes 48 marshmallows.

here is a google search result.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UT...pe&spell=1