Fruit Cocktail with Rum Simple Syrup
Ingredients
- assorted fruit: use what's in season, but use a variety of colors and textures
- cherries and mint leaves for garnish
rum simple syrup
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup sugar
- several sprigs of fresh mint
- 1/4 cup white rum
Instructions
- Dice the fruit into uniformly small cubes. For the best results, put the fruit directly into small serving dishes. This will help keep the fruit intact.
- Pour a little Rum Simple Syrup over each dish and serve garnished with a cherry and a few mint leaves.
- To make the syrup, combine the water and sugar in a saucepan and stir well. Heat to a boil, stirring to dissolve all the sugar. Boil, uncovered, for 3 minutes.
- Take the syrup off the heat and add the mint and rum. Muddle, or crush, the mint leaves with a wooden spoon so they release their essential oils.
- Cool and then strain the syrup.
- You can keep the syrup in a jar with a tight fitting lid in the fridge indefinitely.
Nutritional information is provided as a courtesy and is an estimate only. This information comes from online calculators. Although The View from Great Island attempts to provide accurate nutritional information, these figures are only estimates.
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