Give a store bought Christmas cake a quick 60’s retro makeover!
For my Americanian viewers, fruit jubes = gum drops :)
Stuff you’ll need
An iced fruit cake.
Gum drops (also known as fruit jubes)
Some fine white sugar
Method
Cut the jubes into fine slices.
Roll in sugar so they don’t stick to everything in sight.
Stop eating them (yes, I’m talking to you).
Make a pretty decoration on your cake.
Pineapple roll is a classic festive recipe almost everyone will recognise (if you’re old enough!). Originally published in Modern Gelatine Cookery, 1970 – 1974
Ingredients
440gm or 14 1/2 oz Tinned pineapple
1 pkt of lime gelatine
Glace cherries
Method
Remove the lid from your tin of pineapple.
Pour the juice into a cup.
Make it up to 3/4 of liquid with some water.
Pour it into a saucepan and heat on the stove until it’s hot enough to add the gelatine.
Add the gelatine and stir until it’s dissolved.
Pour it into the can.
Put some glace cherries down the centre of the pineapple rings.
Set in the frigde overnight.
Put a plate over the top of the can and flip it upside down.
To remove, cut the bottom off the can and gently push the pineapple roll out.
Slice and serve.