Summer Fruit Salad

Dress in a mix of strawberry jam, sugar syrup, cognac, fresh lemon and lime juice/zest and minced mint, pour over fruit and toss to coat, chill and enjoy. Add and toss delicate berries and banana slices just before serving. Perfect with tropical fruit, like guava, papaya, pineapple, etc, and the sauce brings out the taste and sweetness of fruit that is not quite ripe. Leftovers: chill in fridge and puree in blender for smoothies the next day.

Not to comment on this recipe but I remember fruit compote as being baked. You would add all the close to pitching fruit together. Pour on some sweetish wine, Manishevitz works and top with all the cookie and graham cracker crumbles in the bottom of the package. It was probably a depression type food using every last morsel.

I make something similar I call Drunken Fruit. I use dried fruits (raisins, cherries, cranberries, apricots, prunes and figs) soaked overnight with ~ 1 cup Grand Mariner and ~1/2 cup Amaretto. Then I cube ~ 5 tart apples and sauté them in butter, adding 1 cup sparkling cider, 2-3 Tbsp balsamic vinegar, 4 cloves and some Angostura bitters. Once that's applesauce, I add the marinated fruit and simmer ~25 minutes. Great for stuffing pork, and the reserved marinade can be poured over pound cake.