Food Network: Red Wine-Macerated Winter Fruit

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Red Wine-Macerated Winter Fruit
Recipe Courtesy of Gourmet Magazine

Ingredients
1 lemon
3 cups water
1 1/2 cups dry red wine
2 tablespoons sugar
1 cinnamon stick
1/2 large firm-ripe pineapple
1 1/4 pounds mixed dried fruit (such as prunes, apricots, figs, and cranberries)

Accompaniments:
Mascarpone cheese or creme fraiche
Biscotti

Directions
Zest and juice lemon. In a saucepan bring water to a boil with zest,
lemon juice, wine, sugar, and cinnamon stick, stirring until sugar is dissolved. Simmer mixture 10

to 15 minutes.

While mixture is simmering, peel and core pineapple and cut into bite-size pieces. Halve figs if
using. Pour hot syrup through a sieve into a bowl. Stir pineapple and dried fruit into syrup and
cool. Chill fruit, covered, at least 8 hours and up to 2 days.

Serve fruit with mascarpone cheese or creme fraiche and biscotti.