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Plum Soup or Fresh Damson Plum Soup

4 servings

Ingredients

• 500 g blue plums or damson plums, pitted
• 0.75 l water
• 1 piece cinnamon
• lemon peel (a little)
• sugar (as needed)
• 1 tbsp potato flour
• sponge dumplings or roasted white bread slices (as needed)

Instructions

1. Cook the pitted plums with water, the cinnamon stick, and a little lemon peel until soft.
2. Stir through a colander, bring to a boil again, add the necessary sugar, and thicken with potato flour mixed in cold water.
3. Cook sponge dumplings in the soup or add white bread slices roasted in butter.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.