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Pineapple, Compote Of

Peel a pineapple, and pick all the specks or eyes from it; cut it into slices half an inch thick, keep one of the largest of these whole, and divide the rest into halves. Make some syrup by boiling five ounces of lump sugar in half a pint of water for ten minutes, put in the slices of fruit, and let them boil for five minutes. Leave them in the syrup until they are quite cold; drain them; put the whole slice in the centre of a compote-dish, and arrange the half slices in a circle round it; pour the syrup over, and serve. Time to boil the syrup, ten minutes; with the fruit, five minutes. Probable cost, pineapples, when very cheap, 1s. to 2s. each. Sufficient for two or three persons.