This is for the fruit bowl dregs at the end of the week, or for those peaches you thought you’d turn into a tart and then promptly forgot about. It’s the no-guilt waste hack of your dreams, cleaning out the fruit bowl or the crisper in one hit.
Go ahead and use those wrinkly apples, overripe pears, the nectarines that have no flavour, or a combination of everything. Think of it as a fruit-salad relish. This is a recipe for a 1kg (2lb 4oz) batch, but feel free to halve or double the quantities depending on whatever fruit, sugar, vinegar and spices you have on…