Flabbergasted by Flummery

Flummery.

That fluffy white dessert of my boarding school days; comfort food and almost forgotten until I opened page 16 of Bloody Delicious! and read the recipe for pineapple flummery.

Perfectly suited to these hot days of summer and with simple ingredients, it should easily make the Ausfood list. It’s a long time since I have considered making flummery and this recipe uses the core and skin of a pineapple for flavour. What a good idea, extracting every bit of goodness from that part of the fruit that might otherwise be discarded.

I am inspired by this recipe and can’t wait to try it. I need a pineapple, sugar, water, lemon and plain flour - so far so good.

What else? Ah, gelatine. A trip to the supermarket this afternoon will find that ingredient which is missing from my kitchen cupboard.

Wrong!!

I am not able to find one gelatine product made in Australia in any of my local supermarkets.

There are two well known brands packed in Australia from imported ingredients, one familiar brand, Davis,  manufactured in New Zealand; three other brands are products of France and Germany, but nothing is made here in Australia.

 Not quite what I am looking for.

What happens to all the hides, bones, tissue and gut left after animals are slaughtered in this country?  I hope you weren't  too disturbed when you read the last sentence, but these are the facts ladies and gentleman.

I will look into this matter further.