"Watermelon chicken sea" (Manglish)
Another stressful day! I put my ginger milk jelly into the fridge, went marketing (we've been eating very simple quick meals the last two weeks), took mom to the hairdresser, came home, opened the fridge and saw that my jelly hadn't set! It had to be something--enzymes perhaps, like in papayas--in the ginger juice that was preventing the jelly from setting. I tested that by using agar powder instead of gelatine and sure enough the jelly didn't set again. I poured the jelly into a pot and added eggs and cornflour. It sort of set hours later but I don't like the texture. I can't imagine eating a whole 200 ml mould of custard. What I don't eat I wouldn't blog, I decided long ago.
It was way past 5 pm, too late if I wanted to make another jelly and take photos without using the flash. But I want to stay in the game, so I decided to do an old jelly, something from the 70s. Okay, maybe 80s. I've lost count. I used to do a huge watermelon jelly in a big bowl for my kids' birthday parties that looked like the real thing but have forgotten how to do that now. One day I'll ask Maureen, my ex-colleague. Anyway, as in previous situations, any jelly is better than no jelly. It was pretty good still, better than eating a big cone of custard.
Watermelon jelly with ice cream--kids'll love it.
There's no better time than this post to tell you about Royal Selangor Pewter (RSP), the sponsor of the Jelliriffic! Challenge, which is raising funds for the Breast Cancer Welfare Association of Malaysia, a voluntary organisation founded in 1986 by medical specialists for the support of women with breast cancer. I'll talk about breast cancer tomorrow but today, it's about RSP.
RSP was started by a man called Yoon Koon who came to Malaysia from China in 1885. While many Chinese who as tin miners in Kuala Lumpur, a city that grew on tin mining, Yoon had the foresight to work with the tin, rather than just mine it, turning it into value-added household items and decorative items. The company survived two world wars and now, the fourth generation of Yoons are managing the company, continuing the company's reputation for excellent craftsmanship and quality. RSP products are known worldwide and highly esteemed.
On a prsonal note, I have been searching my house for an RSP vase that was very popular in the 70s and 80s. I particularly like that vase because it is perfect for a single stem of orchid. It was affordable too and for me, was the second most popular item for friends' birthdays and house-warming, the first item being RSP's photo frames.I couldn't find my vase to show you but it looked like this, except it had a smooth surface, not a hammered one. Browsing through the RSP online catalog, I fell in love with theBud Vase(affordable)and the Arabasque Vase (pricey). When a friend told me last week that any damaged or tarnished RSP item can be sent back to be restored at a very low cost, I flipped because I had thrown my dented classic vase away a few years ago after a spring-clean.
A few days ago, when searching for a glass bowl, I suddenly saw at a corner an old pewter mug! I knew it had to be RSP's because we've not bought anything but RSP. Without kissing ass, RSP is the best pewter brand in the world and I'd be upset if I get anything else. In fact, I'm not sure if there are other pewter brands in KK. I would expect that they all got bumped off by RSP by now.
When I made a big hoo-ha over the old pewter mug, my mom said, "Oh, is that what you were looking for? We had so many of those pewter things, most of them from Uncle Teo." Uncle Teo, my Godsister's dad who was my mom's best friend's husband (can't figure it out? It's the same person),was the area manager for the Malaysian Singapore Airlines back in the 60s and 70s. Which is why the old mug has these markings:
"MSA" for Malaysian Singapore Airlines, prior to 1972 when the two countries operated one airline together. The wood on the handle is missing.
The other side of the handle is fine.
I thought at first that this mug was not an RSP product because it says "Selangor Pewter" on the handle. I did a search and found that the company changed to its present name in 1992 after being conferred a royal warrant by the late Selangor Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah.
Wow. I am so keeping this mug, rugged and all.
RSP's photo frames are worth their weight and banks usually give them to loyal customers.
Yesterday, my friend Su called up and insisted that I go over to her house to see her RSP collection. We live 5 minutes drive apart. Again, she was like me "I never buy anything but RSP!" when I doubted a beautiful tray with a very elegant-looking cat was RSP's. Most of her collection are photo frames, a couple as big as a foot high, but I thought I should not put up her family photos even though she didn't say so. I think her girls would mind so here is part of Su's RSP collection:
Oh yes, the watermelon jelly recipe:
1 1/2 cup red Jello (strawberry or cherry)
1/2 cup green Jello (I used agar and Bols Green Peppermint + a drop of green coloring)
some grass jelly
1. Pour a teaspoon of the red jelly into the Nick Munro jelly mould (stand in a mug) and drop some chopped grass jelly in for the seeds. R! epeat un til all the jelly is gone. Chill.
2. Top the red jelly with the green and let it set. Chill well.
3. Serve with ice cream.
Another stressful day! I put my ginger milk jelly into the fridge, went marketing (we've been eating very simple quick meals the last two weeks), took mom to the hairdresser, came home, opened the fridge and saw that my jelly hadn't set! It had to be something--enzymes perhaps, like in papayas--in the ginger juice that was preventing the jelly from setting. I tested that by using agar powder instead of gelatine and sure enough the jelly didn't set again. I poured the jelly into a pot and added eggs and cornflour. It sort of set hours later but I don't like the texture. I can't imagine eating a whole 200 ml mould of custard. What I don't eat I wouldn't blog, I decided long ago.
It was way past 5 pm, too late if I wanted to make another jelly and take photos without using the flash. But I want to stay in the game, so I decided to do an old jelly, something from the 70s. Okay, maybe 80s. I've lost count. I used to do a huge watermelon jelly in a big bowl for my kids' birthday parties that looked like the real thing but have forgotten how to do that now. One day I'll ask Maureen, my ex-colleague. Anyway, as in previous situations, any jelly is better than no jelly. It was pretty good still, better than eating a big cone of custard.
Watermelon jelly with ice cream--kids'll love it.
There's no better time than this post to tell you about Royal Selangor Pewter (RSP), the sponsor of the Jelliriffic! Challenge, which is raising funds for the Breast Cancer Welfare Association of Malaysia, a voluntary organisation founded in 1986 by medical specialists for the support of women with breast cancer. I'll talk about breast cancer tomorrow but today, it's about RSP.
RSP was started by a man called Yoon Koon who came to Malaysia from China in 1885. While many Chinese who as tin miners in Kuala Lumpur, a city that grew on tin mining, Yoon had the foresight to work with the tin, rather than just mine it, turning it into value-added household items and decorative items. The company survived two world wars and now, the fourth generation of Yoons are managing the company, continuing the company's reputation for excellent craftsmanship and quality. RSP products are known worldwide and highly esteemed.
On a prsonal note, I have been searching my house for an RSP vase that was very popular in the 70s and 80s. I particularly like that vase because it is perfect for a single stem of orchid. It was affordable too and for me, was the second most popular item for friends' birthdays and house-warming, the first item being RSP's photo frames.I couldn't find my vase to show you but it looked like this, except it had a smooth surface, not a hammered one. Browsing through the RSP online catalog, I fell in love with theBud Vase(affordable)and the Arabasque Vase (pricey). When a friend told me last week that any damaged or tarnished RSP item can be sent back to be restored at a very low cost, I flipped because I had thrown my dented classic vase away a few years ago after a spring-clean.
A few days ago, when searching for a glass bowl, I suddenly saw at a corner an old pewter mug! I knew it had to be RSP's because we've not bought anything but RSP. Without kissing ass, RSP is the best pewter brand in the world and I'd be upset if I get anything else. In fact, I'm not sure if there are other pewter brands in KK. I would expect that they all got bumped off by RSP by now.
When I made a big hoo-ha over the old pewter mug, my mom said, "Oh, is that what you were looking for? We had so many of those pewter things, most of them from Uncle Teo." Uncle Teo, my Godsister's dad who was my mom's best friend's husband (can't figure it out? It's the same person),was the area manager for the Malaysian Singapore Airlines back in the 60s and 70s. Which is why the old mug has these markings:
"MSA" for Malaysian Singapore Airlines, prior to 1972 when the two countries operated one airline together. The wood on the handle is missing.
The other side of the handle is fine.
I thought at first that this mug was not an RSP product because it says "Selangor Pewter" on the handle. I did a search and found that the company changed to its present name in 1992 after being conferred a royal warrant by the late Selangor Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah.
Wow. I am so keeping this mug, rugged and all.
RSP's photo frames are worth their weight and banks usually give them to loyal customers.
Yesterday, my friend Su called up and insisted that I go over to her house to see her RSP collection. We live 5 minutes drive apart. Again, she was like me "I never buy anything but RSP!" when I doubted a beautiful tray with a very elegant-looking cat was RSP's. Most of her collection are photo frames, a couple as big as a foot high, but I thought I should not put up her family photos even though she didn't say so. I think her girls would mind so here is part of Su's RSP collection:
Oh yes, the watermelon jelly recipe:
1 1/2 cup red Jello (strawberry or cherry)
1/2 cup green Jello (I used agar and Bols Green Peppermint + a drop of green coloring)
some grass jelly
1. Pour a teaspoon of the red jelly into the Nick Munro jelly mould (stand in a mug) and drop some chopped grass jelly in for the seeds. R! epeat un til all the jelly is gone. Chill.
2. Top the red jelly with the green and let it set. Chill well.
3. Serve with ice cream.
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