Summer Fruit Salad with Sweet Geranium Leaves

Recipe by: Darina Allen

I discovered this recipe which has now become a perennial favourite quite by accident a few Summers ago as I raced to make a pudding in a hurry with the ingredients I had at that moment.

Summer Fruit Salad with Sweet Geranium Leaves

PREP TIME

15

MINUTES

Ingredients

  • 110g raspberries

  • 110g loganberries

  • 110g redcurrants

  • 110g blackcurrants

  • 110g small Strawberries

  • 110g blueberries

  • 110g fraises du bois or wild strawberries

  • 110g blackberries

  • Syrup:

  • 325g sugar

  • 450ml water

  • 6-8 large sweet geranium leaves

Method

  1. Put all the freshly picked berries into a white China or glass bowl. Put the sugar, water and sweet geranium leaves into a stainless steel saucepan and bring slowly to the boil, stirring until the sugar dissolves. Boil for just 2 minutes.

  2. Cool for 4-5 minutes then pour the hot syrup over the fruit and allow to macerate for several hours. Remove the geranium leaves. Serve chilled, with softly whipped cream or vanilla ice-cream or on its own. Garnish with a few fresh sweet geranium leaves.

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