Hot Cherry Fruit Compote

Total Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 16 ounces bing cherries, well drained
• 1 lemon, rind of, grated
• 16 ounces royal ann cherries, drained
• 1/4 cup butter, melted
• 16 ounces peach slices, well drained
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 20 ounces pineapple chunks, drained
• 1 teaspoon curry powder (optional)
• 11 ounces mandarin orange sections
• 21 ounces cherry pie filling
• 1/3 cup light raisins
• 1/4 cup rum
• 1/4 cup crystallized ginger, minced

Recipe

• 1 in a buttered, large glass baking dish (9 x 13 or larger), arrange bing cherries, royal ann cherries, peach sliced, pineapple chunks, orange sections, raisins and ginger.
• 2 sprinkle grated lemon rind over all.
• 3 make a paste of the melted butter, brown sugar and curry powder and distribute over the fruit.
• 4 cover with pie filling and pour rum over all.
• 5 bake in 350f oven 45 minutes, or until hot and bubbly.
• 6 serve hot as an accompaniment to meat or poultry, or chilled as a dessert.