Magic Jelly

Ingredients:

1 packet agar-agar strands
450g granulated sugar
200ml fresh milk
2 fragrant screwpine leaves (daun pandan), wash and tie into a knot
6 cups water
1 tsp rose essence
yellow, green, red and blue food colouring


Method:

• Soak agar-agar for 1 hour then drain.
• Pur agar-agar, pandan leaves and water in a large pot. Bring to the boil, then continue boiling till agar-agar dissolves. Add sugar, stir and when sugar dissolves, strain jelly into a large bowl. Add milk and essence to jelly and stir. Put 2 large ladles of jelly in each of four small shallow bowls, leaving rest in large bowl. Add a different colour to each small bowl and chill coloured jelly in fridge. Leave the white mixture at room temperature to prevent it setting before coloured jellies. When the bowl of coloured jelly have set, cut them into small cubes, add to the white mixture and stir to mix. Pour into jelly moulds and chill.