Another topping is make sabayon…then scoop the stewed fruits on bowls with just a tiny bit if the syrup, top with sabayon and gratinee under the salamander or broiler or torch it as well.

But my favorite is to make puff pastry rectangles…roll out the puff pastry to about 1/3 inch thick, Eggwash and make criss cross pattern using a decorating comb or fork. Cut to desired length. Cookie sheet with parchment paper and chill before baking. Then bake until nicely puffed and golden brown. Cool and split in half. make whipped cream and top with the stewed fruits…

No one will ever know you were trying to get rid of the dried fruits leftover from your Christmas baking!

This is one of customers’ favorite dessert in the winter with different toppings entire winter season back in those days when I used to head the pastry dept. of the Cannery.

– MSG is bad but naturally occurring MSG in cheese, wine, mushrooms and seaweed does no harm but in fact makes these tasty.
– Fructose causes obvious sugar related problems but in fruit both fresh and dried, plays its energy giving part in perfect tandem with the fibre, enzymes, macro & micro nutrients found in the whole package. Juicing 10 oranges and gulping it down in one shot is not the way nature intended for us to consume oranges. Ditto snacking on 200g of raisins in one go.
– Wine is fine and is but a natural product of fermentaton but when distilled into hard liquor, it is to be treated with caution.
– Calcium found in greens and other foods is bio-available but a pharmaceutical calcium supplement comes with nothing else to enhance and balance it. If it comes from an inorganic source (most do!),ie, rocks, it’s completely non bio-available which means it simply goes through your system without being absorbed.

The point of the article is to show that fructose whether in the form of chemically processed HFCS or “naturally occurring” as in fruits, honey, cane, beet, agave, etc. is still a health concern.

From the cited article:

“For people who are worried about their health or their children’s health — and who isn’t, these days — the data suggest that the best choice is to reduce intake of all sweeteners containing fructose. That includes not only the evil HFCS, but also NATURAL cane sugar, molasses (which is just impure cane sugar), brown sugar (ditto) and honey. Even “unsweetened” (no added sugar) fruit juices need to be considered when limiting your family’s fructose intake.”