Making Baked-Fruit Desserts

Baked fruit recipes aren’t difficult, but a few simple tips will help you to make your baked fruit creations unforgettable:

• Use fresh spices. Baked fruit recipes typically contain spices such as cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and cloves. Smell the spices that have been sitting on your shelf for months or years. If they’ve lost their enticing fragrance, throw them out and treat yourself to new ones.

  
  



• Use unsalted butter. Many baked-fruit recipes call for butter — and margarine is no substitute (it doesn’t taste as good as butter). Also, the salt in salted butter can affect the delicate sweetness of many baked goods, so go unsalted.

  
  



• Use fresh-squeezed lemon juice. Baked-fruit recipes often use lemon juice to keep the fruit from turning brown. The acid in lemon juice slows the oxidation of fruit when exposed to air.

  
  

  When a recipe calls for fresh lemon juice, never use the bottled reconstituted liquid kind; it tastes more like furniture polish than lemon juice.

  
  

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