How to Make Gum
In childhood, there is nothing more mysterious than chewing gum and the way it is cooked. What kind of product is this, and how to make a cud at home? In fact, there is nothing complicated. The main thing is to stock up with the necessary ingredients, in which nothing complicated is included.
Chewing gum has always attracted its "tightness", rich taste and the ability to inflate bubbles. Soviet chewing gum was quite original. Today's generation, which collects different things with the symbols of the USSR, would have to evaluate the creative work of the confectionery factories of the 1970s, which tried to imitate Western standards. Thus, the Moscow confectionery association "ROT FRONT" made strawberry, orange and coffee chewing gum. Their taste was very rich and sweet, they were chewed for a long time and on the cover there was always Olympic symbolism. In the 90's chewing gum was considered a sign of success, although chewed mostly cheap counterfeiting or the invention of a domestic confectionery plant.
Later Western chewing gum stopped being contraband, and Russia began to chew everything that the world company invented Wrigley's Spearmint. In the meantime, everyone began to wonder howdo the chewing gum, without buying it in the kiosks, because do not understand what this product is made of. At first they tried to learn the secret at the factories and factories on the production of chewing gum, but it is in vain, because the technology of production of the house and the plant will in any case be different.
First, at home, we learned how to cook a marmalade. For this, all was requirednatural: fruit, sugar, water, vegetable oil. Of the fruit mashed, mixed with sugar and cooked this consistency. Then they laid out the thickened mass on a board greased with oil, put in the sun and waited for the hardening of the so-called marmalade. After hardening, cut into cubes or strips and you get something like a cud. In the mid-90s, the chewing sweets "Frutella" appeared and the Soviet homemade marmalade of fruit puree became known as "Frutella".
Later, confectioners began to try different ways of cooking gum, so now it's easier to navigate in the question of how to make chewing gum. She even did from birch sap and resin. It was a useful chewing gum, although in appearance it wasnot autumn is presentable. The chewing gum was done in this way: pulled the resin or juice and cooked for a very long time, until a viscous mass was obtained. The chewing gum turned into a solid black consistency, but it tasted terrific. Now there are special bases for cooking chewing gum, so it will not be difficult to make this product at home and please the children.
How to make chewing gum at home
For homemade chewing gum you need to purchase a special base for chewing gum, flavor,Glycerin, sugar powder, citric acid and corn syrup. Everything, except flavor and sugar powder, must be mixed and put in a microwave oven for 1 minute. When the base is completely dissolved, and the mass becomes sticky, you need to pull it out and add the flavor. Try to do everything quickly, so that the flavor is in the hot mass, and not into the chilled. Then you need to make a slide with a deepening of the powdered sugar. It is necessary to pour the mass in there and stir until it is completely thickened and hardened. You can still mix with sugar, but it is better, after all, to use powder, so that sugar crystals do not creak on your teeth. Then you need to cut the resulting gum onto plates or pads and enjoy homemade chewing gum. You can make colorful candy wrappers from tissue paper to interest the child.
Now you know how to make chewing gum at home. Not difficult? On the contrary, it is very easy and interesting. Your child will consider you a wizard if he realizes that a whole factory for the production of chewing gum has opened at his house.
