Fake blood problem

[xpurexhellx]

welll i never made fake blood but there are a lot of great recepies so i'll just follow one... the problem is.... i don't know what corn syrup is.... and don't really know what to look for since Im Portuguese and if i translate literaly what corn syrup means i can't find nothing.... lol probably a hard question but can someone help me?

[xpurexhellx]

well i think i got my problem solved, e found like 38 ways to make fake blood and all writen in Portuguese so the names os the ingredients are easy to recongnize! sorry to bother you all

[google550]

No problemo.

[xpurexhellx]

no problemo is not Portuguese for the record.... lol its spanish... in Portugues it can be "Sem problemas" or "Não há problema"

[Phusician]

OK, I have the same problem, only difference is I live in the Netherlands. So, I bought some other stuff and I would like to know what will probably work best, I bought agave syrup, sunflower oil, and strawberry syrup. I got red and green food colouring

[ciwi286]

Glucose syrup is the equivalent here, if thats any help.

[Phusician]

so wat would work better:

A) concentrated agave syrup
B) water, sugar 36% (sugar/glucose) red food colouring, strawberry aroma

[ciwi286]

I have never used agave syrup..but sugar would not do. Agave syrup looks like its pretty much the same thing...so I would give that a try.

[Phusician]

what would sugar not do, i mean, what is actually so special about corn syrup :) I'm going to make it tomorrow because it's 8:07 pm here and the stores are closed, I got to buy the food colouring

[ciwi286]

What differs it from just mixing in sugar is that it is a thick syrup rather than a crystalline powder.

Agave syrup and food colouring should be fine.

[punkandska66]

Just use Arissa's method. I made some last night, and it looks [and tasted] really good. Just a bottle of HERSHEY'S chocolate syrup and a bottle of McCORMICK'S red food coloring. I think that you have to use those brands otherwise it won't work. Arissa said that she used 3/4 of the food coloring and the whole bottle of syrup. I used the whole bottle of syrup and the whole bottle of food coloring because the syrup I got was this new special one that had like 22% more or something. So I had to use more food coloring to counter that.

[ciwi286]

The problem there is you need name brand things from America. We dont have hersheys chololate sauce over here.

[punkandska66]

The problem there is you need name brand things from America. We dont have hersheys chololate sauce over here.

But Hersheys is all over the world. You really don't have Hershey products? I'm pretty sure Hersheys is like one of the HUGE companies that is all over the place. Like McDonalds (which is gross...) or something.

[ciwi286]

Nope...No hersheys.... we have macky d's but no hersheys.

[Phusician]

Thanks a lot ciwi, I'll show the results tomorrow :)