Sunkist Fruit Gems
Sugar-dusted pectin jelly squares in individual wax-paper twists — lemon, orange, grapefruit, raspberry, lime — equally at home in a deli-counter jar, a grandparent's candy dish, and a synagogue. The recipe descends from Christopher's Fruit Gems, the signature candy of Southern California's oldest candy company. Thrown at bar and bat mitzvahs for decades: soft enough not to injure, festive enough to 'sweeten' the occasion, and a genuinely airborne childhood memory for a whole community.