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Fresh Cherry Soup

4 servings

Ingredients

• 500 g cherries, sour
• lemon zest (a little)
• 2.5 pcs cloves
• 2 pcs zwieback, crushed
• 0.75 l water
• 125 g sugar
• soup macarons (as needed)

Instructions

1. Pit some cherries and crush the stones in a mortar.
2. Place the cherries with the crushed stones, a little lemon zest, and the cloves on the stove and boil until the cherry flesh is cooked down.
3. Stir through a sieve, then add the crushed zwieback, water, and sugar.
4. Bring to a boil again, season with sugar, and serve over soup macarons.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.