How to make agar agar?

Question

How to make agar agar?

Answer 1

Ingredients : Serves 6



6 cups

4 teaspoons

1 cup

3 or 4 drops

1/2 teaspoon

3 or 4 drops

Water

Agar-agar powder

Sugar

Rose essence

Vanilla essence

Almond essence

Few drops red food coloring

Few drops green food coloring



Method :

Pour water into a saucepan, sprinkle the agar-agar powder over the surface and bring slowly to the boil.

Boil until agar-agar dissolves, 5-10 minutes.

Add sugar and stir over heat until it dissolves.

Remove from heat, pour 2 cups of the jelly into a bowl, color pink with red coloring and flavor with rose essence.

Pour into a glass bowl rinsed with cold water.

Keep remaining jelly warm in a pan of hot water.

Refrigerate pink jelly.

As soon as the first layer sets (this takes only a few minutes), pour 2 cups more agar mixture into the bowl and flavor with vanilla.

Pour gently over the first layer and chill.

Repeat with remaining jelly colored a pale shade of green and flavored with almond essence.

Chill until serving time and serve from the bowl.

Although the jelly is delicious chilled, an advantage in hot countries where no refrigeration is available is that it sets at the temperature of 27oC (80oF)

Answer 2

I've read that agar-agar is made from a red seaweed named Ceylon

moss (Gracilaria lichenoides). I would like to know details of how

this is done. Do you know of literature I can read on this, either

books, articles or websites?