Chilled Strawberry Soup is a special dish I usually serve for Valentine's Day Dinner but it's an equally delicious treat at a summertime brunch or any time you want to try something a little bit different.
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1 cup dry white wine or sparkling cider (if you need to make it kid safe)
1/3 cup sugar
2 cups strawberries cut and pureed in a blender
1 cup orange juice
1/8 tsp. ground cardamom
1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
fresh mint sprigs
- Place the wine and the sugar in a saucepan.
ring to a simmer and stir until the sugar dissolves. Remove
from the heat. This is not enough heat to cook off the alcohol.
- Add the pureed strawberries, orange juice, and cardamom to the wine mixture
- Chill completely.
- Before serving beat the whipping cream and swirl with the chilled soup. Garnish with mint sprig and serve.
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Hi, Liana;
Assuming you were serious with your tweet about weird soups...
Like most sensible people, I have a fondness for vintage cookbooks, preferably pre-1930s. Unlike most sensible people, I actually cook from them, quite regularly. That's why I can say I've not only made and eaten peanut soup... I've done it *twice*.
The recipe I used is from a cookbook published late in WWI, containing rationing-friendly recipes. It's called "Peanut Soup", but contains no actual peanuts. What it *does* contain is...
...peanut butter.
You can visualize it now, can't you? One quart of milk, scalded with a single slice of onion in it; two tablespoons of cornflour mixed with six tablespoons of peanut butter; the two mixed together and heated for fifteen minutes...
It smells pretty good. It doesn't taste that bad, especially if you use a good organic peanut butter. It looks, well... like something that came out of the wrong end of a sick dog, alas. So, not really a soup for dinner parties, I'm afraid.
That weird enough for you? :)
LOL! Ohmigosh! That's perfect! I would totally cook something like that. I found a recipe for Tomato Soup Cupcakes once and brought them to a party. It was great making people guess the secret ingredient.:)
That's plenty weird, thanks for commenting.