Dessert Recipes - Spiced Summer Fruit Salad Recipe

Ingredients

• 150 ml/2/3 cup water

• 50 g/2 oz/1/2 cup granulated sugar

• 1 piece of stem ginger in syrup, finely chopped

• 45 ml/3 tbsp stem ginger syrup

• 12 maraschino cherries

• 30 ml/2 tbsp maraschino cherry syrup

• Finely grated rind and juice of 1 lime

• 350 g/12 oz strawberries, halved

• 1 cantaloupe melon, balled or cubed

• 225 g/8 oz seedless black grapes, halved if large

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Method:

1. Put the water and sugar in a saucepan and heat gently, stirring, until the sugar dissolves. Boil for 5 minutes.

2. Stir in the chopped ginger, ginger syrup, maraschino cherries, cherry syrup, lime rind and juice. Leave to cool.

3. Put all the prepared fruit in a serving bowl. Add the syrup, stir gently and chill for at least 2 hours before serving.