Recipe - Hot Toddy Fruit Salad With Rum Or Brandy Madeleines

HOT TODDY FRUIT SALAD
1 cup Figs
2 cup Apple juice
4 Apples
One half cup Rum or brandy
One fourth cup Brown sugar
One half teaspoon Ground nutmeg

MADELEINES
75 g Butter
2 Eggs
One half cup Castor sugar
1 teaspoon Vanilla essence
1 cup Flour
1 tablespoon Rum or brandy
Icing sugar

Hot Toddy Fruit Salad:

Place figs in a saucepan with apple juice and leave to soak for 2 hours.

Peel apples and cut into quarters, removing cores.

Heat figs with rum, brown sugar and apples.

Cook over a low heat until apples are tender.

Stir in nutmeg.

Serve warm with Rum Madeleines.

Madeleines (Makes 24):

Grease madeleine tins or small cake tins and dust with flour.

Melt butter and leave to cool.

Beat eggs, sugar and vanilla until thick and light.

Sift flour and fold through egg mixture with butter and rum.

Threequarter fill tins with mixture.

Bake at 200 C for 8 minutes.

Turn onto a wire rack to cool.

Dust with icing sugar.

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