Compote of Fresh Fruit

A Handbook of Cookery for a Small House · Conrad, Jessie · 1923

Source: A Handbook of Cookery for a Small House
Time: Cook: 40 min Total: 40 min
Status: success · extracted 13 days ago
Not a recipe: No

Ingredients (5)

six large pears, cut into quarters ↝ Pears, raw [Fruits and Fruit Juices]
half a pint of water ↝ Water, tap [Tap water]
two breakfast-cupfuls of white sugar ↝ Sugar, white, confectioner's, powdered [Sugars and honey]
six apples, cut in eight pieces each, taking care not to core them before cutting but after ↝ Apple, raw [Apples]
three bananas cut in rings ↝ Bananas, raw [Fruits and Fruit Juices]

Instructions (5)

Put six large pears, cut into quarters, into boiling syrup made of half a pint of water and two breakfast-cupfuls of white sugar.
Let the pears stew for about twenty minutes and then put in six apples, cut in eight pieces each, taking care not to core them before cutting but after.
Stew gently for another twenty minutes.
Add three bananas cut in rings just before dishing the compote.
Serve cold in a glass dish.

Original Text

Compote of Fresh Fruit

Put six large pears, cut into quarters, into boiling syrup made of half a pint of water and two breakfast-cupfuls of white sugar. Let the pears stew for about twenty minutes and then put in six apples, cut in eight pieces each, taking care not to core them before cutting but after. Stew gently for another twenty minutes. Add three bananas cut in rings just before dishing the compote. Serve cold in a glass dish.

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