History Cookbook: Cheese and Pineapple Hedgehog
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Healthiness : (979 votes)
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Comments: This is a very simple recipe with no cooking required.
Preparation Time: 15 minutes
Cooking Time: None
Number of servings: Allow 3-4 sticks per person.
Serving suggestions: Serve as part of a party menu.

Comments: This is a very simple recipe with no cooking required.
Preparation Time: 15 minutes
Cooking Time: None
Number of servings: Allow 3-4 sticks per person.
Serving suggestions: Serve as part of a party menu.
This is a party food recipe. Cheese, tiny pickled onions, mini sausages and pineapple chunks are put on cocktail sticks and arranged stuck into half a grapefruit. Party food in the 1970's was fun and often used convenience foods to make preparation quick and easy. This recipe reflects this trend.
It is called a hedgehog because the cocktail sticks resemble the spines on a hedgehog.
Ingredients
- half a grapefruit
- 20-30 cocktail sticks
- some of the following: tinned pineapple chunks, cubed cheese, mini cooked sausages, silverskin pickled onions
- a piece of aluminium foil
Equipment
- Cocktail sticks
- Aluminum foil
- Plate
- Large knife
Making and cooking it

- Wrap the half grapefruit in the tin foil, all the edges should be tucked under the cut surface of the fruit
- Place the grapefruit, cut-side down on a plate
- Push a cube of cheese (for example) onto one end of the cocktail stick and push the other end into the grapefruit
- Continue to thread the pieces of food onto the sticks, you may try some together eg onion and cheese, or keep each item separate
- Keep chilled until needed. This does not keep and should be used on the day it is made

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Name: Alison | 12th March 2019 |
You could try making a face by using halved glacé cherries for eyes ,nose and mouth etc.or green or black olives! |
Name: Dasia | 18th September 2011 |
A few years ago I'd have to pay someone for this information |
Name: Steph | 5th June 2010 |
yummy |
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