Danish Cherry Soup (Kirsebærsuppe)

photo by kiwidutch



- Ready In:
- 1hr
- Ingredients:
- 6
- Serves:
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8
ingredients
- 1 1⁄2 lbs tart cherries, divided
- 3 quarts water
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 1⁄2 lemon, sliced
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1⁄2 cup sugar
directions
- Pit one cup of cherries and reserve.
- Cook remaining cherries in 3 quarts water; when tender, press through a sieve.
- Add the cup of pitted cherries, cinnamon stick, and lemon slices to the juice.
- Cook slowly for a few minutes.
- Make a paste of cornstarch and a little juice or water; add to soup, stirring constantly.
- Bring to a boil and add the sugar.
- Serve hot or cold.
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This recipe catches you quite unawares... It's sweet, its a little tart, it unexpected. It catches you on the hop and makes you think. Its not a soup I would want often , but when I have it I would totally and completly enjoy it, even as unaccostomed to cherry flavour as I am. The only reason that I couldn't give this 5 stars is becuase my DH dislikes fruit, and dislikes warm fruit even more... so I will never be able to make this as part of a romantic dinner for two and if I made it for guests he would sit refusing to eat it, so I would need a second soup that he would eat. He tried a spoonful and his face said it all. We will rate this instead on my face that said something completely different. Please see my rating system: an excellent 4 stars for a fruit flavour delight. Thanks!
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I love cherries, so naturally I think this soup is WONDERFUL! Easy to make (especially if one is as lucky as I to be able to buy a 3-pound bag of already pitted frozen cherries!) I used my immersion blender, then, being particularly obsessive-compulsive today I strained it through cheesecloth to get as clear a soup as possible. I used 1/3 C sugar and I confess I didn't thicken it. (I am never happy with the texture of reheated things with cornstarch thickening.) Thanks fellow teammate--for a delicious dessert.
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