Carse of Gowrie fruit salad

Name: Carse of Gowrie fruit salad
Yield: To Serve Four
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 2 bananas; 100 g (¼ lb) cherries; 1 wineglass red wine; 100 g (¼ lb) redcurrants; 2 fresh peaches; dash of sherry; 1 orange; 2 fresh apricots; 275 ml (½ pint) water; 100 g (¼ lb) raspberries; juice of 1 lemon; 225 g (½ lb) sugar

Preparation info

To Serve
Four

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

British Cooking

By Caroline Conran

Published 1978

About

This is a very superior fruit salad from Scotland, to be made at the height of summer with all the most delicate of bush and tree fruits, together with a few old faithfuls, such as bananas.

Ingredients

The syrup

225 g (½ lb) sugar
275 ml (½

Europe
United Kingdom
Dessert
Gluten-free
Scotland
Vegan

Method

Put the sugar, water and red wine in a small saucepan, bring to the boil and boil for 5 minutes. Allow to cool, then pour this syrup into a nice bowl, and stir in the lemon juice and sherry.

Dip peaches and apricots very briefly into boiling water and then skin them carefully. Slice them and put them immediately into the syrup.

Pare the skin and pith from the orange with a sharp