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Mixed Fruits

8 servings

Ingredients

• 500 g sugar
• 500 g good pears
• 500 g good apples
• 500 g blue plums, pitted

Instructions

1. Clarify 500 grams of sugar.
2. Peel 500 grams of good pears, quarter them, and cook them thoroughly in the sugar, then remove.
3. Cook 500 grams of good apples until soft in the same sugar and remove.
4. Then, cook 500 grams of blue, pitted plums in it, bring everything to a boil again, and remove the fruits.
5. Reduce the juice to a moderately thick consistency and pour it over the fruits.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.