Fruit Salad I

Ingredients

 * 1 banana
 * 1 orange
 * 1 grapefruit
 * 1 cashew or Malacca pear
 * 1 papaw (papaya)
 * a few cherries

Syrup

 * 2 oz sugar
 * ¼ pt water

Directions

 * 1) Boil the water and the sugar together until a thin syrup is formed, then set aside to cool.
 * 2) Wash and peel the fruit, discard the seeds and cut into neat chunks.
 * 3) Reserve the juices.
 * 4) Mix the fruit in a glass bowl, straining off any juices.
 * 5) Into the bowl, pour the cool syrup of which there should be enough to float the fruit.
 * 6) Chill before serving.