How to make homemade chewing gum?

Not only adults love chewing gum to refresh their breath. What a delight the children come when they see brightly shaped confectionery products of unusual shape. But, unfortunately, store chewing gum is not something that is not useful, but rather the opposite, and I don’t want to refuse a small creation. So you have to look for ways to solve the problem and wonder how to make home chewing gum, and is it even possible. In this article, you will find more than one recipe for home chewing gum, the preparation of which does not have to spend a lot of time, and then worry about the health of your child.

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Home chewing gum - recipe number 1

The easiest and safest way to make is not just chewing gum, but the desired marmalade, especially when the child is very small and can swallow it. The main advantages of this recipe:

• simplicity and accessibility of ingredients;
• absolute harmlessness of the finished confectionery sweets.

Structure

To quickly solve the question of how to make homemade chewing gum, prepare the following ingredients:

• Lemon juice - 5 tbsp;
• Water - half a glass;
• Starch - 1 tsp;
• Sugar syrup - 300 ml;
• Gelatin - 1 sachet;
• Any fruit juice is half a cup.

Cooking method:

1. Heat the juice on the stove or in the microwave (so faster) to a warm, but not hot, state.
2. Pour gelatin into a heat-resistant container.
3. Pour it with juice.
4. Leave on for 20-30 minutes to swell the granules.
5. Separately, heat the sugar syrup, also to a warm state.
6. If desired, add natural dyes, vanilla or zest to the syrup.
7. Pour the swollen gelatin into the sugar syrup.
8. Stir well.
9. Add a portion of starch and stir well so that there are no lumps. (Starch can be diluted a little with cold water, then there will definitely not be lumps).
10. Strain the mass through a sieve.
11. Pour into molds and send containers to the refrigerator.

Important! Marmalade is ready for use in 6-8 hours.

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Home chewing gum - recipe number 2

If your child is already older, then the question of how to make homemade chewing gum can be solved in another way. Following the step-by-step instructions of this recipe, you will end up with a complete analogue of store sweets.

Structure:

• Special basis - buy it in the online store. Only 1 tablespoon is required per serving;
• Dye - 3 drops in a store or take natural fruit or vegetable;
• Corn syrup - 1 tsp;
• Starch - 2 tbsp .;
• Flavoring additive - zest or special mixes from the store.

Cooking method:

1. Preheat the base in the microwave oven by setting the timer for 90 seconds.
2. Add the syrup to the resulting mass and mix well.
3. Pour starch onto a cutting board.
4. Put a piece of chewing gum on it and knead it like a regular dough.
5. Once the mixture is smooth and relatively resilient, add color and flavor.
6. Mix everything again.
7. Form into small pieces in any shape you need.
8. Put everything on a plate for 2 hours in the refrigerator.

Important! Since you can only make chewing gum according to this recipe using some store ingredients and swallowing it is undesirable, do not give children under 3 years old. Or, by age, navigate based on your pedagogical preferences.

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Home chewing gum - recipe №3

There is also an old way to make gum. Since ancient times, our ancestors used 2 natural components for this purpose:

• birch sap;
• resin of birch.

Important! In appearance, this chewing gum is not very attractive, but it is completely safe. And to make it interesting and beautiful, you can use modern additives on a natural basis - flavors, dyes. Use them or not - decide for yourself.

Cooking method:

1. Mix the resin and juice in equal proportions.
2. Put in a saucepan on fire.
3. Cook for several hours, stirring occasionally.
4. Remove from heat when the mass becomes more dense and viscous.
5. Lay out in forms, wait for the final solidification - it should become quite solid.

Important! If you still doubt whether to use this recipe to solve the question of how to make homemade chewing gum, keep in mind that birch resin and juice are very useful, and the finished product is very tasty!

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Home chewing gum - recipe No. 4

Another amazing way to make chewing gum yourself is healthy and tasty, besides only from natural ingredients.

Structure:

• Gelatin - 1 tbsp;
• Boiled cold water - 3 tbsp .;
• Honey in honeycombs - 100g;
• Beeswax is a small piece;
• Flour - 1 handful.

Important! In addition, prepare a baking sleeve.

Cooking method:

1. Mix gelatin with water.
2. Leave on for 10-15 minutes.
3. Place the baking sleeve in a deep, heat-resistant plate.
4. Put honeycombs on it.
5. Put in the microwave for 2 minutes.
6. Remove and mix with gelatin.
7. Add a small piece of beeswax and mix thoroughly until a uniform paste-like thick consistency is obtained - knead for at least 5 minutes.
8. Spread the baking sleeve on a large flat plate.
9. Pour on it a ruminant blank from above.
10. When it reaches room temperature, put in the freezer for half an hour or an hour.
11. Take out the chewing gum plate and make sure the mass is frozen.
12. Cut into small pieces.
13. Roll them in a thin layer of flour - this is necessary so that the chewing gum does not stick to your hands.
14. Wrap each sweet in foil or candy wrapper.

The chewing gum is ready!

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Now you know some recipes for cooking gum at home. Choose the one that suits you or experiment with each of them in a row and make yourself and your children happy with homemade harmless sweets!