How can you use temperature to control food textures?

Understanding how gelatin sets can help you make better desserts, gravies, and soups. Heat breaks the protein bonds, while cold locks them together.

Try making a simple jelly from scratch using fruit juice and gelatin, observing how the texture changes as it cools.

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The oldest surviving recipe for jelly in England dates back to the late thirteenth century.

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The first recorded recipe for sweet dessert jelly appeared in an English cookbook in 1747.

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Powdered gelatin was invented in 1682 by a French physicist named Denis Papin.