Thyme for fruit salad

Thyme is a fragrant herb a favourite ingredient in a fruit salad. Think it is a Gordon Ramsey recipe. Make syrup with:
1 vanilla pod, 1 star anise, half a teaspoon of coriander seeds, a few sprigs of thyme,
3 cms of thinly sliced fresh ginger,
1 hundred grams of caster sugar
1 hundred mls of water.
Pour the hot syrup over ripe plums, red apple, green apple and ripe pears.
Leave to cool and chill for half an hour.