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Fruit Salad

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Sugar and cornstarch cooked with water until thick and clear, sharpened with lemon, and poured cooled over cut fresh fruit.

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I like to use watermelon, pineapple, nectarines or peaches, strawberries, grapes, orange sections, etc.

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Ingredients

  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 3 tablespoons cornstarch
  • 1 cup water
  • Juice of 1 fresh lemon
  • About 10 cups cut-up fresh fruit

Directions

  1. Cook sugar, cornstarch, and water until thick and clear.
  2. When thick, add juice of 1 fresh lemon.
  3. Add to fruit when cool and stir gently to coat.

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