Branded Fruit Starter

Total Time: 10 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• 1 (15 1/4 ounce) can pineapple chunks, drained
• 1 (16 ounce) can peach slices, drained
• 1 (17 ounce) can apricot halves, drained
• 1 (10 ounce) jar maraschino cherries, drained
• 1 1/4 cups sugar
• 1 1/4 cups plain or 1 1/4 cups apricot or 1 1/4 cups peach

Recipe

• 1 combine all ingredients in a clean, nonmetal bowl.
• 2 stir gently.
• 3 cover mixture and let it stand at room temperature for 3 weeks.
• 4 stir mixture two times per week.
• 5 serve fruit over ice cream or pound cake.
• 6 reserve at least 1 cup of starter mixture at all times.
• 7 to replenish starter, add 1 cup sugar and one of the first 4 ingredients every 1-3 weeks, alternating fruit each time.
• 8 stir gently after adding fruit and sugar.
• 9 cover and let mixture stand at room temperature 3 days before using.