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Apple Soup with Currants

4 servings

Ingredients

• 2 soup plate sour apples, unpeeled, cut
• 1 pcs stale white bread, cut
• 1 l water
• 1 piece cinnamon
• 2 pcs cloves
• salt (a little)
• 1 tbsp butter
• 0.5 cup cleaned currants
• sugar (to taste)
• 12 pcs finely crushed sweet almonds (optional)

Instructions

1. Place the apples, cut white bread, and cold water over heat, add cinnamon, cloves, and a little salt, and cook until soft.
2. Strain the soup through a sieve, bring to a boil again, add butter and the cleaned currants, and sweeten with sugar to taste.
3. If desired, finely crushed sweet almonds can also be cooked with the apples.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.