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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Anna Berrill

Not just what it says on the tin: the best recipes for canned fruit

Fruit in opened tin cans: pears, pineapples, peaches, tangerines.
Tins can only get better: canned fruit is incredibly versatile in all manner of sweet and savoury dishes. Photograph: Jorg Greuel/Getty Images

What are the best recipes using tinned fruit?
Georgie, Hastings

There’s more to tinned fruit than a heavy dose of nostalgia: it’s cheap, available all year round, regardless of the season, and a friend to many bakes. Case in point: pears work a treat nestled in chocolate batter, as do apricots baked tatin-style on top of, or under, puff pastry. Or follow Jack Monroe’s lead in Tin Can Cook and embrace the good old fruit cocktail by tipping a tin into a classic cake batter.

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