Jubjub

Jubjub is one of the confections that I ate as a child while visiting Trinidad and promptly forgot about. On a recent trip back, someone offered me some. Once the jubjub was in my mouth, all the memories that come with taste and smell flooded back and I remembered one of the neighbor children shyly offering me some near the backstairs to my father’s house when I was about ten.

This candy is traditionally made with lime juice, although today, commercially prepared versions make use o