Recipe - Quartet Fruit Salad

450 ml Good red Beaujolais wine;
(Three fourths pint)
4 teaspoon Sugar; to taste (4 to 8)
2 Cinnamon sticks; broken into
pieces
2 Lemons to taste; juice of,
up to 4
1 kg Ripe strawberries; hulled
(2lb)
4 Kiwifruit; peeled and cut or sliced up
2 Apples; cored and cut or sliced up
500 g Cherries; pitted (1lb)
750 g Ripe peaches; peeled, stoned
and
; cut or sliced up (1 1/2lb)
4 Sprigs fresh mint; stems
removed
Creme fraiche; to serve
(optional)

Pour the wine into a very large bowl.

Add the sugar, cinnamon and lemon juice.

Prepare the remaining ingredients in the order listed and stir immediately
into the wine mixture.

Chill in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours before serving with creme
fraiche, if wished.

The fruits used can, of course, be varied according to the season.

Note: 2 hours chilling time.

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