Iced Gems

These have a very special place in my heart!

Iced Gems were tiny round biscuits (tiny, maybe 2cm diameter) with a swirl of hard icing on top. They tasted very good. The icing was many different colours.

My Grandparents used to bring them around every week (probably because they only cost 10p a packet) but they were delicious.

Amazingly they were first made over 150 years ago - in Reading! Though in their more familiar incarnation came about when in the 1970s Huntley and Palmer, Peek Frean and Jacobs joined to form Associated Biscuits.

There were many different ways of eating these tasty treats. Go for the icing first, or the biscuit, or both together. I preferred both together, they would melt in your mouth quite nicely. In fact I remember them being quite hard if you just tried to chew your way through a whole packet!

Lovely.

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Do You Remember Iced Gems?

littlegrandma1963 on 2015-08-28 21:57:17

Loved em! Still do !

m6m62 on 2014-09-30 23:05:35

Yes, bland as anything these were !

hotmetal on 2013-11-02 01:19:24

No kids party in the 70s was complete without these. They were a bit odd though, really. And the 'icing' was the gem really, cos the little biscuit bit was quite boring. I used to just eat the pointy bit and give the biscuit part to the birds!

Chris T on 2012-08-05 14:59:54

I still buy these occasionally, along with the newer Chocolate Gems which have a swirl of chocolate on top instead of icing.