Candied fruit

Sorry - I should have put this under "food"

I used to have a recipe for candying your own fruit, but I am blowed if I know where it is. If I can find it I will post it. I know it involved soaking the fruit in a sugary solution for a while each day for a week or so, and each day drying it on a rack. The pineapple was delicious, but it was rather a faff.

I adore candied fruit. But it's sooo fattening.

Waitrose do a lovely bag of dried exotic fruit (mango, pineapple etc) in larger, moister chunks that might suit. Not at all like the dried fruit of old.

I used them in a Jamie Oliver bombe type pudding at Christmas and they were wonderful.

They are in a bag on the shelves with the organic nuts and nice ingedients.

Bur have you looked at the calorific values?

Just don't!!!

I used candied fruits for the Jamie Oliver ice cream bombe recipe. I could only find them on line and they were expensive and yes very sugary hence full of calories. If it had not been a special occasion I would not have bothered.

Last time I saw some proper ones were in Granville in France. They were the equivalent of £6 each!

My Jamie Oliver ice cream bombe recipe ended up making a large and a small bombe!

We had the large one at Christmas but the small one is sitting in the freezer - maybe for Easter?!!

Yum, yum