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.