Jujubes confections of sugar syrup and fruit flavourings, set with a high proportion of gum, and falling into the general category of fruit gums and fruit lozenges, often with a medicinal application, e.g. good for sore throats.
Jujubes have been made since at least 1830 when Gunter wrote in his Confectioner’s Oracle that ‘Jujubes are very much in vogue abroad,—but it would be exceedingly difficult to say wherefore:—they are at best very little better than a sweetish sort of India-rubber!!’ This was a harsher criticism than could fairly be made of good English jujubes, such as could readily be obtained until quite recently.
