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Fruit Salad

4 servings

Ingredients

• 0 Apples
• 0 pears
• 0 Oranges
• 0 bananas
• 0 Cherries, halved and pitted
• 0 Peaches
• 0 Greengage plums
• 0 Strawberries
• 0 pineapple, fresh or preserved
• 2 Zitronen Lemon juice
• 0 Syrup (simple)
• 0 Brandy, kirsch or maraschino
• 0 Nuts, chopped

Instructions

1. Peel apples, pears, and oranges, remove the seeds, and cut everything into thick slices; peel bananas and cut into thicker slices; halve cherries and remove the pits; peaches, mirabelles, strawberries, and fresh or canned California pineapple, also cut into smaller pieces, add.
2. Mix everything with the juice of two lemons (any compote juice available), cooled simple syrup, and optionally with brandy, kirsch, or maraschino.
3. These additions should not overpower the fruit flavor.
4. Chill the salad for some time, arrange in glass bowls, and sprinkle with chopped nuts.
5. Serve small, tender pastries separately.
6. Simple Syrup: In a clean, tall narrow pot, cover one part sugar with two parts water, bring to a boil quickly while stirring several times, skim, and simmer for two more minutes.

Based on a cookbook by Hans Hofer (1964), adapted with AI.