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Cherry Cold Soup

4 servings

Ingredients

• 1 deep soup plate sour cherries, pitted
• 1 liter water
• 0.5 tbsp cherry stones, crushed
• cloves (a little)
• sugar (plenty)
• rusk (as needed)
• whipped cream (optional) (as desired)

Instructions

1. Cook the pitted cherries with water, crushed cherry stones, and cloves for fifteen minutes.
2. Strain the soup through a cloth, mix with plenty of sugar, and chill.
3. Serve with rusk, garnished with whipped cream if desired.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.