Prue Leith

Pineapple with Kirsch

Preparation info
  • Serves

    Four to Six

    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Prue Leith

Published 1978

  • About

This is such a simple recipe that I hesitate to include it, but it is an attractive way of presenting a fresh pineapple, and its simplicity does not detract from its excellence.

Ingredients

  • 1 large pineapple
  • icing sugar
  • Kirsch

Method

Lay the pineapple down on a board. With a sharp knife cut off a slice from the top (which will include the leaves) and a slice from the bottom, which will enable the pineapple, when you have put it back together again, to stand up. Throw away the bottom slice. Using a sharp knife, cut the flesh out of the pineapple skin leaving the skin intact. This means working from both ends so that you extr