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Picnic fruit salad

Picnic fruit salad

This is an adaption of a recipe in Jane Grigson's Fruit Book (Michael Joseph/Penguin).

Serves 4



1   vanilla bean, halved lengthways
110 gm (½ cup)   caster sugar
4   peaches
4   white nectarines
150 gm   raspberries
1/3 cup   lime or lemon juice
150 ml   gin or vodka


1 Place scraped seeds from vanilla bean in a bowl, then cut bean into 4cm lengths and combine with sugar. Using a small knife, cut a small cross into skins at the base of stone fruit, then place stone fruit, one at a time, into boiling water for 30 seconds, then immediately refresh in iced water. Peel skins from stone fruit, cut in half and remove stones, then cut into quarters. Layer stone fruit with raspberries in a 1.75-litre wide-mouthed thermos or tall plastic container with a lid, sprinkling with sugar mixture and lime juice as you go. Pour in gin, seal container and invert once, then refrigerate until required. Alternatively, transfer the fruit salad to a tall glass jug for serving.


RECIPE Jane Grigson (adaption Sophia Young) PHOTOGRAPHY Chris Chen STYLING Sophia Young


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