Red Wine-Macerated Winter Fruit

Ingredients

• 6 servings cashew orange biscotti 
• 1  cinnamon sticks 
• 6 servings crème fraîche 
• 1.5 cups cooking wine dry red
• 0.5 large firm-ripe pineapple 
• 1.3 pounds fruit such as prunes mixed dried
• 1  optional: lemon 
• 2 tablespoons sugar 
• 3 cups water 

Equipment

• bowl
• sauce pan
• sieve
• peeler

Directions

1. Remove zest from lemon with a vegetable peeler and squeeze juice from lemon. In a saucepan bring water to a boil with zest, lemon juice, wine, sugar, and cinnamon stick, stirring until sugar is dissolved. Simmer mixture 15 minutes.
2. While mixture is simmering, peel and core pineapple and cut into bite-size pieces. Halve figs if using.
3. Pour hot syrup through a sieve into a bowl. Stir pineapple and dried fruit into syrup and cool. Chill fruit, covered, at least 8 hours and up to 2 days.
4. Serve fruit with mascarpone or crème fraîche and biscotti.