Fresh Fruit Salad with mace

Ingredients Sugar:30/80gm Juice of half a lemon Selection of 4 to 6 fruits: apples, pears, oranges, bananas, grapes(green or black) melons and peaches Mace powder: 3 to 5 gm Method Dissolve the sugar in 300 ml of water over gentle heat. Bring the syrup to a boil and continue boiling for five minutes. Cool it, and add lemon juice and mace powder. Quarter, core and slice the apples. Peel and segment the oranges. Slice the bananas. Halve and seed the grapes. Peel and segment the peaches. Scoop orbs out of the lemon with a small scoop(1). Put each fruit into the syrup as it is prepared. Mix all the fruits together and, if possible, leave it to stand for 2-3 hours to allow the flavors to blend. The fruit salad will keep up  to 3 days, but the bananas need to be replaced everyday.   The Hindu Wellness August 14 2008