Pineapples are like eating sunshine, if they are really ripe, and even though they have been flown so far, we enjoy them in the winter in this house. At the moment they are cheap, perhaps because the supermarkets stocked up on them as luxuries for Christmas and now want to shift them. The one we have just eaten only cost 89p which is cheaper than a pound of cooking apples. It was a little lacklustre in flavour though, so I baked it. Rum and brown sugar and pineapples come from the same part of the world and they like each other!
Baked Pineapple with Rum - for 3/4
I large pineapple, peeled, cut into rings, cored and then each ring cut into three
2 dessertspoons brown sugar
2 caps of rum - or more if you like
A few flakes of butter - about 3/4 oz
Juice of half a lime
2 bananas (optional but good)
This is a forgiving way to cook fruit and you need to just make sure it is all soft and delicious. It will keep warm in a low oven if need be. If you don't want to put the oven on, another approach is to fry the fruit gently in butter (you will need more), and then add the rum and sugar near the end.Of course you can also just use fruit juice, a squeezed orange and some lemon, if it is for children or you are being economical and non alchoholic.
Baked Pineapple with Rum - for 3/4
I large pineapple, peeled, cut into rings, cored and then each ring cut into three
2 dessertspoons brown sugar
2 caps of rum - or more if you like
A few flakes of butter - about 3/4 oz
Juice of half a lime
2 bananas (optional but good)
- Put the prepared pineapple into a shallow oven dish.
- Add the sugar, rum and then the butter scattered on top.
- Bake for approx 30 mins in hot oven No 6/200 - you can also try it in a lower oven for longer if, for instance, you have the oven on for something else.
- Now add the bananas in chunks, taste the liquid to be sure it is sweet and rummy enough, and add the lime juice.
- If you don't like bananas try some de-pithed clementine pieces.
- Stir gently and return for about 10 mins.
- Eat with cream or yoghurt.
This is a forgiving way to cook fruit and you need to just make sure it is all soft and delicious. It will keep warm in a low oven if need be. If you don't want to put the oven on, another approach is to fry the fruit gently in butter (you will need more), and then add the rum and sugar near the end.Of course you can also just use fruit juice, a squeezed orange and some lemon, if it is for children or you are being economical and non alchoholic.
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