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Flaming Fruit Kebabs

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Editor's note: This recipe is from Brini Maxwell's Guide to Gracious Living. For Maxwell's tips on throwing a summer pool party, click here.

This eye opening dish is mostly flash and very little substance, but the fresh fruit is delicious and good for the digestion.

Recipe information

  • Yield

    Makes 4 servings

Ingredients

2 quarts fresh fruit such as pineapple chunks, strawberries, grapes, orange sections, and mango
12 soft bread cubes
1 bottle lemon extract
4 metal kebab skewers

Preparation

  1. Prepare this dish right before serving. Start by cutting up the fruit into bite-sized pieces (this can be done in advance), then soaking the bread cubes in the lemon extract. Anything soaked in lemon extract will burn with a lovely blue/yellow flame — that includes your clothing, the Formica, and this book, so be careful. Stack the fruit on the skewers, interspersing a cube whereever you'd like a flame. Be sure not to put a bread cube too close to the handle of the skewer. When the kebabs are all stacked, light the bread cubes. They'll burn nicely for a few minutes, but be sure to blow them out before trying to eat the fruit. Also, it's probably not a good idea to serve this dish in bed.

Reprinted with permission from Brini Maxwell's Guide to Gracious Living by Brini Maxwell. © 2005 Stewart, Tabori, & Chang
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