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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast

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Speaker 1: from Newstalks EDB.

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Speaker 2: Fourteen to ten on Newstalks EDB. Yes, I enjoyed Mister

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Speaker 2: Bates Versus The Post Office. Another show I absolutely love

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Speaker 2: has just come back with a new series. It's Alone.

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Speaker 2: This is the amazing reality TV show where they get

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Speaker 2: kind of survival experts. They drop them in the middle

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Speaker 2: of nowhere and those people have to set up a camp,

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Speaker 2: hunt for food, try and last as long as they

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Speaker 2: can in the wilderness while filming themselves. So they have

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Speaker 2: basically no human contact and depending on how long they last,

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Speaker 2: they can then access a satellite phone and call for

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Speaker 2: help and basically it's last person standing wins. Anyway, the

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Speaker 2: reason I'm excited about Alone is because the latest season

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Speaker 2: is set in New Zealand. It's Australian competitors, but they

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Speaker 2: are all set up in a part of Fjordland around

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Speaker 2: a massive lake there trying to eke out, you know,

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Speaker 2: eake out of life for as long as they can.

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Speaker 2: And so we're going to tell you more about Alone

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Speaker 2: in the latest series after ten of Cootle This Morning

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Speaker 2: in our screen time segment right now. Though it's thirteen

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Speaker 2: to ten and time to catch up with our cook,

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Speaker 2: Nikki Wicks more than a Nikki.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, good morning chat.

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Speaker 2: It is officially Fijo a season. I mean it's been

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Speaker 2: Fijo a season for a wee while. But I tell

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Speaker 2: you what. Last weekend, which I had Easter weekend in Nelson,

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Speaker 2: of course, as soon as we finished the show, I

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Speaker 2: went outside and my step son and my nephews were

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Speaker 2: scurrying around under the fijoa bush. They call themselves rats.

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Speaker 2: They say, we're being rats and we're getting fijos because

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Speaker 2: the rats get the fijos. So they're like, we're being rats.

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Speaker 2: And they were just going around picking up fijos, biting

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Speaker 2: into them and eating.

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Speaker 3: That was so I mean, such as the abundance of

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Speaker 3: our beautiful fijo that they are not like any other

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Speaker 3: fruits in New Zealand. Yeah, they are that abundance that

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Speaker 3: no one cares how many you eat. There's not a

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Speaker 3: parental figure going, not too many of those kids yet

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Speaker 3: you know. Yeah, it's amazing, isn't it. Hey, Look, before

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Speaker 3: I go into this absolutely incredible cake recipe I've got,

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Speaker 3: I wanted to read a little excerpt from the book

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Speaker 3: by Kate Evans called a story of obsession and the

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Speaker 3: longing feed jo and you, I think interviewed.

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Speaker 1: Well, here we go.

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Speaker 3: The scent comes first. When you sink your knife in

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Speaker 3: or your teeth into a feed Joe's skin, it is zingy, heady,

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Speaker 3: a burst of bright, perfumed flavor unlike any other. In

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Speaker 3: New Zealand, the traditional method is to scoop out the creamy,

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Speaker 3: clear insides with a d spoon and discard the skins,

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Speaker 3: though in many other parts of the world people simply

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Speaker 3: eat them whole, and the scent of the flesh is

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Speaker 3: translucent and jelly like. Where the tiny seeds hang in

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Speaker 3: spiral suspension. Closer to the skin, it's it's opaque and

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Speaker 3: slightly gritty. Some have compared the taste to a mixture

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Speaker 3: of pineapple and strawberries, but in reality the flavor is

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Speaker 3: something all of its own. In the United States, where

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Speaker 3: joe as are called pineapple guavas, a nineteen twelve newspaper

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Speaker 3: article declared, he who drinks beer thinks beer, but he

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Speaker 3: who eats pineapple guava thinks of pineapple, raspberries, and banana.

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Speaker 1: All at once.

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Speaker 2: Isn't that lovely?

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Speaker 1: Isn't it?

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Speaker 3: So true, isn't it? I absolutely love it so lot.

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Speaker 2: There you go. Problem with if there is one, is

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Speaker 2: that they tend to all come at once.

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Speaker 3: Yes they do.

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Speaker 2: And so finding some utilitarian purposes for them, finding some

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Speaker 2: uses outside of eating them like rats, can be a

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Speaker 2: bit tricky, but you're solving that problem for us today.

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Speaker 3: I am with a beautiful, beautiful coconut. This is a

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Speaker 3: sticky fijo a cake. It's got lots of coconuts, got dates,

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Speaker 3: and it's beautiful. So to go, cup of cup of

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Speaker 3: pitted dates. You first of all, you cover those with

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Speaker 3: boiling water. That's to soak them so that they're ready.

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Speaker 3: And I add a little bit of baking soda to that.

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Speaker 3: So I got a cover of dates, cover boiling water,

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Speaker 3: and a teaspoon of baking soda, which sort of helps

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Speaker 3: them kind of soften a little bit too and adds

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Speaker 3: to our cake cries later on. And so I led

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Speaker 3: them to soak for five minutes and then blend all

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Speaker 3: of that up to a chunky paste in a food process,

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Speaker 3: so water and all jack, you don't have to drain

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Speaker 3: that water off. And then we'll cream some butter and sugars.

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Speaker 3: So that sort of cake. We've got one hundred and

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Speaker 3: thirty grams of butter, half a cup of white sugar,

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Speaker 3: half a cup of brown sugar. So it's a pretty

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Speaker 3: sweet cake because it's got the dates and the sugar

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Speaker 3: in there. Add the date paste into thereafter you've creamed

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Speaker 3: it and beaten an egg, one lovely large egg, and

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Speaker 3: stir all of that until it's combined, and then sift

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Speaker 3: in one and a quarter cups of plain flour with

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Speaker 3: a teaspoon of baking powder and a little pinch of

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Speaker 3: salt if you like, in there too, and then fold

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Speaker 3: in half a cup of dessicated coconut and a cup

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Speaker 3: of peeled and diced feed soa. It can probably handle

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Speaker 3: more feed joa too, if you really have got heaps

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Speaker 3: of them. Yeah, it's really beautiful. It's great. So gently,

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Speaker 3: so you know, mix all of that together until it's

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Speaker 3: just combined. Scrape it into I use a twenty three

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Speaker 3: centimeter around baking tin for this ovens on one seventy

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Speaker 3: so bake, so scrape that into them just gently, kind

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Speaker 3: of smooth the top because it's a thick little batter,

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Speaker 3: and bake it for thirty minutes. But that's not all

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Speaker 3: while that's baking in a pot, make a little coconut

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Speaker 3: topping for it with a cup of shredded coconut, or

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Speaker 3: you could use the desiccated the game, but maybe use

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Speaker 3: a little bit less third of a cup of brown sugar,

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Speaker 3: third of a cup of milk, and fifty grams of

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Speaker 3: butter and just mix all of that together until it's

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Speaker 3: kind of heated, you know, and melted. And then at

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Speaker 3: the thirty minute mark of your cake jack just you

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Speaker 3: know it's done, its little rise to gently spoon this

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Speaker 3: coconut topping all over the cake and then bake it

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Speaker 3: for another twenty five to three five minutes until something

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Speaker 3: comes until a skewer or a knife comes out nice

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Speaker 3: and clean, and that will go all sort of golden

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Speaker 3: and not really crunchy, but all it's beautiful and sticky.

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Speaker 3: When it comes time to take the cake out, run

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Speaker 3: that knife around the edge of the cake to loosen

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Speaker 3: it whilst it's in the tin, and before you've rested it,

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Speaker 3: just to loosen that sort of camel's topping. Leave it

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Speaker 3: for a good hour to sort of you know, call down.

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Speaker 2: And then it's always the hardest bit for me, for

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Speaker 2: goodness sake.

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Speaker 3: Well, it'll collapse because it's such a beautiful it'll collapse

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Speaker 3: and it's only got one egg.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's beautiful.

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Speaker 3: Great thing to do with you, Jr. I'd strongly recommend us.

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Speaker 2: Fantastic. Hey, what we will do is make sure that

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Speaker 2: recipe is up and available on the news talks HEB

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Speaker 2: website very soon indeed, so that everyone can make it

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Speaker 2: at home this weekend. You have a great weekend, one Niniki,

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Speaker 2: you too.

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