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Jell-O Shooter (Jello Shots)

This is your basic vodka or tequila jell-o shot. Modify to suit your taste. Make a few different batch and see which you like the best.

Jell-O Shot Recipe (Jello Shots) Ingredients

  • lime or cherry Jell-O (jello)
  • 1 cup boiling water
  • 1 cup tequila or vodka
  • 3 oz lime juice (lime Jell-O only)

Jell-O Shot Recipe (Jello Shots) Directions

  1. boil one cup of water
  2. pour liquor into bowl
  3. pour water into bowl
  4. stir in Jell-0 (Jello)
  5. scoop into 2 oz cups
  6. chill in refrigerator

Non Sequitur

The industrialist, inventor and philanthropist Peter Cooper, of Tom Thumb engine and Cooper Union fame, obtained the first patent for a gelatin dessert. Although he packaged his gelatin in neat little boxes with directions for use, Cooper did very little with it. Home cooks still relied on sheets of prepared gelatin, which had to be clarified by boiling with egg whites and shells and dripped through a jelly bag before they could be turned into shimmering molds. This was a time-consuming process, very different from today’s JELL-O® gelatin.

Pearle B. Wait, a carpenter and cough medicine manufacturer from LeRoy, New York, developed a fruit-flavored version of Cooper’s gelatin. His wife, May Davis Wait, named it JELL-O®. The first flavors were: strawberry, raspberry, orange and lemon.

During the early quarter of the 20th century, immigrants entering Ellis Island in New York City were served JELL-O gelatin as a “Welcome to America”. Jello became a dessert staple with the thought that there’s always room for Jello.

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