Festive Fruit

Name: Festive Fruit
Yield: 3 to 4 pints
Ingredients: ½ to ⅔ cup brown sugar; several cardamom pods; 1 teaspoon whole allspice; 1 6- to 8-oz. jar red maraschino cherries; ⅓ cup cider vinegar; 1 standard can apricots, packed in light syrup; 1 standard can pears, packed in light syrup; 1 large cinnamon stick, broken; 2 teaspoons whole cloves; 1 standard can peaches, packed in light syrup; 1 piece dried ginger root, crushed

Preparation info

3 to 4 pints

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Home Canning and Preserving

By Janet Cooper

Published 2014

About

Ingredients

1 standard can peaches, packed in light syrup
1 standard can pears, packed in light syrup
1 standard can apricots, packed in

Preserve
Dessert
Gluten-free
Vegan

Method

Drain all juices from the fruits into a kettle and add the cinnamon stick, cloves, ginger root, allspice, and cardamom pods.
Boil rapidly until reduced to about 1½ cups and add the brown sugar (less for heavy syrup) and vinegar.
Simmer 5 minutes, covered. Add