Delicious over everything

Recipe by: Darina Allen

This spiced fruit relish keeps for months and is, as the title says, delicious over everything. It will even perk up porridge, rice and is gorgeous over ice cream, panna cotta, pancakes or crumpets. Try it with cold ham

Delicious over everything

COOKING TIME

5

MINUTES

Ingredients

  • 50g (2oz) yellow raisins

  • 50g (2oz) muscatel raisins

  • 50g (2oz) currants

  • 50g (2oz) dried apricots, sliced into pieces

  • 50ml (2fl oz) port and 50ml (2fl oz) of sherry

  • 25g (1oz) almonds, peeled and split

  • 150g (5oz) sugar

  • 150ml (5fl oz) water

  • 1 Ceylon cinnamon stick

  • 1 star anise

  • 4 cardamom pods

  • 25g (1oz) candied peel, chopped

Method

  1. Cover the dried fruit with warm port and sherry. Allow to soak and plump up overnight. Add the split almonds.

  2. Put the sugar and water into a saucepan, add the cinnamon, star anise and cracked cardamom pods. Bring to the boil and simmer for 3-4 minutes or until the syrup thickens. Add the soaked fruit to the syrup with the chopped candied peel. Bubble for 2 or 3 minutes.

  3. Fill into sterilised glass jars, cover with a screw cap. Keeps for 6 months or more.

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