Floating Diamonds

Name: Floating Diamonds
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Australia
Ingredients: mixture of fresh fruits – for example, clementine and pink grapefruit segments, black grapes, sliced starfruit and kiwi fruit; 50 g (2 oz) caster sugar; fresh lychees; 600 ml (1 pint) milk; 4 tablespoons cold water; 1½ tablespoons powdered gelatine; 1 teaspoon almond essence

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Floyd on Oz

By Keith Floyd

Published 1991

About

Basically, this is just a glorified fruit salad with almond-flavoured jelly wedges on top. Softer fruits like bananas, grapes, orange or pomelo segments are more suitable than hard fruits such as apple.

Ingredients

600 ml (1 pint) milk
50 g (2 oz

Oceania
Australia
Gluten-free
Vegetarian

Method

Heat the milk in a pan until it is almost boiling. Remove from the heat and add the sugar, stirring until it has dissolved. Allow the mixture to cool slightly, then stir in the almond essence. Leave to cool again for about 10–15 minutes.

While the almond milk is cooling, sprinkle the gelatine into the water in a small bowl. When the water has been absorbed, dissolve the gelatine over a