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- From: asente@cascade (Paul Asente)
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- Subject: RECIPE: Fruit soup
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- Date: 8 Aug 86 05:14:42 GMT
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- .RH MOD.RECIPES-SOURCE FRUIT-SOUP SPV "16 Jun 86" 1986
- .RZ "FRUIT SOUP" "Fresh fruit soup"
- This is a simple, delicious soup, perfect for a hot summer day. It
- is based upon a recipe in \fIThe Moosewood Cookbook\fR by Mollie Katzen.
- This describes what emerged last time I made it; vary any or all of
- the ingredients freely. I've included some suggestions at the end.
- .IH "serves 4"
- .IG "12 oz" "apple juice concentrate" "350 ml"
- (one can)
- .IG "2" "peaches or nectarines"
- .IG "1 wedge" "canteloupe"
- .IG "2" "apricots"
- .IG "12" "strawberries"
- .IG "1" "small lemon"
- .IG "1" "small lime"
- .IG "\(12 tsp" "dried mint flakes" "2.5 ml"
- .IG "" "cinnamon"
- .IG "" "nutmeg"
- .IG "2 cups" "unflavored yogurt" "500 ml"
- .IG "" "honey"
- .IG "" "sherry or other sweet wine"
- .IG "12 oz" "grape juice concentrate" "350 ml"
- (one can)
- .IG "4" "violets or other small non-toxic flowers"
- .PH
- .SK 1
- Wash and peel the peaches, canteloupe, and apricots. Wash and hull
- the strawberries and set aside the 4 nicest ones. Peaches and
- apricots peel more easily if you dip them in boiling water for a few
- seconds before peeling. Try not to lose any juice from the fruit.
- .SK 2
- Put half of the fruit into the bowl of a food processor and pur\z\(aaee.
- You could also use a food mill for this.
- .SK 3
- Put the pur\z\(aaeed fruit into a bowl and add the apple juice concentrate,
- an equal quantity of water, the juice of the lemon and of the lime, the
- mint flakes, a sprinkle each of cinnamon and nutmeg, and half of the yogurt.
- Whisk together well. Add several glugs of sherry and honey to taste. (It
- shouldn't be very sweet\(ema couple spoonfuls should do it.)
- .SK 4
- Put the rest of the fruit in the food processor and pulse until well
- chopped but with recognizable chunks of fruit still visible. Put
- this into a different bowl and mix some of the first mixture into it
- so the fruit doesn't turn brown. Put both bowls in the refrigerator
- for at least half an hour.
- .SK 5
- When you're ready to serve, divide the chunky fruit into 4 soup
- bowls. Fill each bowl almost to the rim with the soup. Pour the
- grape juice concentrate into a creamer or small pitcher and carefully
- pour two concentric circles of grape juice into each bowl. Take a
- chopstick or similar sized utensil and draw it through each bowl
- several times alternating from the center to the edge and from the
- edge to the center, lifting the chopstick after each stroke. This
- should turn the rings of grape juice into sort of a zigzag pattern.
- Stir up the remaining yogurt well and put a little mound of yogurt
- into each bowl. (The yogurt will probably sink. Put more in until
- you get a mound!) Take the 4 reserved strawberries, slice them
- thinly, and surround each mound of yogurt with strawberry slices. Top
- each mound of yogurt with a flower and get ready for the oohs and ahs.
- .NX
- You can substitute any fruit that you want, but use strong tasting
- fruits like pineapple in moderation or they will take over the soup.
- Bananas are nice; cherries are wonderful but impossible to peel.
- Plums and other fruits with very mild flavors tend to get lost in the
- shuffle. The juice concentrates can be replaced with regular juices;
- vary them if you like, also. There's an apple-pear-grape juice
- combination that's delicious as the base and cranberry juice is nice
- as the contrasting color. Or, use a darker juice for the base and
- something lighter in color like orange juice to make the rings.
- Cherries or mint leaves make attractive garnishes.
- .PP
- Of course you don't have to go through all the special presentation
- work, but it really doesn't take that much time and it makes the
- result into something special. Doing the fruit in two steps is
- strictly optional; if you're not going to make the ring pattern you
- may as well just process it all at once and stop before it's
- completely pur\z\(aaeed.
- .SH RATING
- .I Difficulty:
- moderate.
- .I Time:
- 20 minutes preparation, 30 minutes chilling, 10 minutes presentation.
- .I Precision:
- no need to measure.
- .WR
- Paul Asente
- Stanford University
- asente@su-cascade.arpa decwrl!glacier!cascade!asente
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