Australian Chilled Plum Soup
Keys: Low Calorie Fat Free Diet Fruit Soups Stews Vegetarian
Australian Australia Aussie Pacific Australian Oz Yield: 1
Ingredients:
2 qt water
1 cup sugar
1 stk cinnamon crushed
1/2 tsp ground allspice
1/2 tsp ground black pepper
6 cup pitted and sliced red plums about 2lbs
1/4 cup cornstarch
1/2 cup cold water
1 cup dry red wine chilled
1 cup heavy cream whipped
thinly sliced plums for garnish
Method:
In large non-aluminum soup pot, combine first five ingredients. Bring to
boil; add plums. Simmer 30minutes; strain thru fine sieve. Discard
solids.
Mix cornstarch with cold water to make slurry (thin paste). Beat slurry
into hot soup, stirring constantly. Continuing to stir, bring soup back
to boil, them remove from heat. Chill.
Just before serving, stir in wine. Top each serving with spoonful of
whipped cream, thinly sliced plums.
Makes about six servings.
NOTES : I got the following recipe from our local paper...reportedly, it
is a traditional soup from the former Austro-Hungarian Empire. The
article suggests using the darkest red plums you can find for the
richest color. Also, when straining the soup, the less you press the
pulp, the clearer your soup will be:
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Angelique
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