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Strawberry Jujubes
Strawberry Jujubes is a traditional Sri Lankan recipe for a classic snack or candy of a gelatine base with flavouring and colouring that is set and served dusted with icing sugar. The full recipe is presented here and I hope you enjoy this classic Sri Lankan version of: Strawberry Jujubes.
prep time
20 minutes
cook time
20 minutes
Total Time:
40 minutes
Makes:
18
Rating: 
Tags : Sri-lanka Recipes
On the Indian sub-Continent, Jujubes are soft, semi-gooey and sugar coated. In contemporary Tamil slang, the word "ju-ju-bi" means 'easy pickings'. In the 1970s there was a commercial brand of jujubes, known as Moon Drops which were sugar-covered, with a somewhat sour tasting soft-gooey, fruit-flavoured core.
Ingredients:
30g gelatine
40g sugar
pink food colouring
strawberry essence
100ml strawberry purée, sieved to remove any seeds
300ml water
icing sugar, for dusting
Method:
Measure out 150ml boiling water and stir the gelatine into this. Pour 150ml more boiling water into another bowl and stir in the sugar to dissolve. Once the gelatine has dissolved, mix it with the sugar bowl then work in the strawberry purée before adding a little pink colouring and adjusting the taste with a little strawberry essence.
Pour the resultant mixture into a tin about 1cm deep, lined with clingfilm (plastic wrap) and set aside until cooled and set. Once set, turn onto a cutting block and cut into squares. Dust the squares with icing sugar and serve.
