What is "fruit compote"

Usage examples of "fruit compote".

But when I went back to the buffet I saw a lovely assortment of dessertsapple pie, lemon chiffon pie, little cream puffs with whipped cream inside and chocolate sauce dribbled over them, fruit compote and chocolate cake and lemon Bavarian and .

I had a weakness for a fruit compote, chilled, iced, laced with cream.

Hugh Murdoch and Ellen Gunn, the other nonborns, ate their porridge, smoked goose breast, and hot fruit compote with resentful expressions, knowing that they would now have to do Dee and Ken's chores as well as their own.

It consisted of a fresh fruit compote sprinkled with an unidentified powder resembling cement, followed by a cereal containing several mysterious ingredients - some chewy, some gummy, some sandy.

After breakfast, a fruit compote of Spanish oranges was served, followed by more caffe.