Peaches, Blackberries, and Strawberries with Basil and Pepper

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated July/August 2007

Could an old bartending trick be the simple answer to a better fruit salad?

SERVES 4 to 6

TIME 35 minutes

Peaches, Blackberries, and Strawberries with Basil and Pepper

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

To create a fruit salad recipe with great fruit flavor, we had to rewrite a few rules. We found it hard to judge the proper amount of sugar when it was added directly to the salad, so we macerated each fruit in just the amount needed to rel...

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