Instructions: In a large bowl combine peaches nectarines plums and apricots with lemon juice brown sugar and chervil. Refrigerate for 2 hours stirring occasionally.

Cut cucumber halves into 1/2 inch slices.

Just before serving toss with fruit mixture.

Line each serving plate with 2 lettuce leaves.

Fill center of leaves with salad.

Stone fruits are named for their rather convenient anatomy: Their flesh grows around a large pit or stone. This makes them especially tempting for plain ordinary eating out of hand as well as a good choice for cutting up into salad. In this savory dish a short marination allows the delicate scent of chervil to make its way into the mix of flavours. Without the taming effects of romaine and cucumbers this would also make a luscious dessert.

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