Balanced dessert
I made a nice mixture of things I’ve had before. First was the berry blue jello. It’s not to everyone’s taste, and I have one friend who finds it difficult to eat food coloured blue. Some of the colour is probably natural from the berries it derives from, but it’s a taste and look that I like. Second came the apples. I cored and peeled a large Bramley, sliced it up and simmered it in water with a spoon of muscovado sugar and a generous dash of cinnamon until it began to go soft (just a couple of minutes). Then I put in a heaped dessert spoon of raisins for a couple of minutes simmer, then let it all cool.
When it was nicely chilled, I served the jello and apple-raisin mix together, adding goat’s milk yoghurt. The mix of tastes and textures was good, with the acidic yoghurt, the tart apple, the dark sugar and cinnamon and the sweet blue jello making for a varied plateful. The tastes went well together.