Uncover, clip a candy thermometer onto the side of the pan and continue to cook until the mixture reaches 240 degrees F, approximately 7 to 8 minutes (I don’t have a candy thermometer and 7 mins was the perfect time).

Cover and allow to cook for 3 to 4 minutes.

In a small saucepan, combine the remaining 1/2 cup water, granulated sugar, corn syrup and salt.

Place the gelatin into the bowl of a stand mixer along with 1/2 cup of the water.

gelatin from beef, fish, and they even have veggie jelly)ġ teaspoon imitation vanilla extract (without alcohol-I got mine at dollar general)Ī few drops of your favorite color food coloringĪnother 3/4 cup granulated sugar for sanding :p to Just Bornģ tablespoons unflavored kosher gelatin (i.e. What follows is my very own recipe for pork free peeps that taste better than store bought.

I ordered a rather large bag of halal gelatin powder online, did some digging around for homemade peep recipes and this is what I came up with … So, I decided to take matters in to my own hands. But I just don’t have that much energy (Candy induced lethargy? Perhaps). Through the peep deprived years, I have thought about activating my Jewish and Muslim candy loving friends to protest the porked peep situation. Just Born company’s gelatin peddling peeps were 100% pork. I called the company myself and then began to call every company that touted gelatin as an ingredient. Much to my relief, I realized that starbursts and skittles were both made from beef gelatin. I had given up eating pepperoni pizza and bacon on my burgers, but I had never imagined that this pork prohibition would affect my candy addiction. Gelatin being the boiled down bone marrow from an animal, and in most cases it is from a pig. Starbursts and skittles and marshmallows OH MY! All had gelatin in them. If you are familiar with this, you are probably shaking your head right now in agreement. Until I started realizing how much food has hidden pork in it. Which was all well and good and my life improved greatly with these changes. And one of those behaviors was to stop drinking alcohol and eating pork.

*drooling*Īnyway *wipes mouth*, when I started to think seriously about converting to Islam, I started to incorporating the Islamic behaviors into my lifestyle. When you open the wrapper of a peep phalanx and let it sit out overnight you will be rewarded with a crispy stale outer sugar coating that adds an amazing texture to the creamy mallow-y filling. And even better than a peep is a stale peep. I fall in the camp of LOVE with a couple of extra o’s than the normal citizen of peep-land. It is the colored sugar covered marshmallow that people either love to hate or just LOVE. My absolute favorite holiday candy treat was the peep. Christmas didn’t make it to the top two because some of the gifts were not candy. My love for candy borders on the insane.Īll my favorite holidays, pre-Islam, were candy based: Halloween being numero uno in my book and Easter coming in at a close second. At one point while in high school I even overthrew the dictator teacher of my French class and became its supreme ruler just so that I could instate a weekly “sugar fest” where all my French class subjects would bring candy to feast on. Those who know me can attest to the fact that I am candy crazy. Test kitchened and Written by Theresa Corbin

Halal gelatin free