Gelatin desserts

[Mjx]

One of my favourite desserts is a gelatin, flavored with citrus juice and ginger (fresh or grated, depending on what's available); a miniscule pinch of salt keeps it from tasting insipid, and a little sugar rounds it out. I use 10g/0.35oz gelatine for each 100cc of liquid, and let it firm up overnight. Once I've dissolved the gelatin, I add the juice of a lime, lemon, or half a grapefruit, and enough water to bring the volume up to 600cc/2.5 cups.

Anyone make something similar, but with different flavorings? I've heard of several Asian ones that use ingredients such as orange flower water, cardamom, and (I think) coconut milk: anyone tried these?

[JeanneCake]

This reminds me of something I haven't thought about in years, decades probably. My mother or grandmother made it; and I don't think it was really dessert and it wasn't a salad either. I remember the gelatin being filled with shredded carrots, maybe crushed pineapple? and chopped walnuts. I loved eating it as a child - it was cold, crunchy from the carrots and walnuts and it seemed for a while I couldn't get enough of it to eat. I'm sure it was made with commercial Jell-O; I don't ever remember my mother having gelatin sheets in the house but she did have powdered gelatin because there was a thing for awhile about adding it to drinks to improve your fingernails maybe? And making gelatin blocks in our own favorite flavors when Jell-O Jigglers were first popular.

I'm going to have to find out what that was....