Chilled Plum Soup

Description

Makes about six servings

Ingredients

• 2 qt water
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 stalk cinnamon crushed
• ½ tsp ground allspice
• ½ tsp ground black pepper
• 10 cups pitted and sliced red plums about 5½ lbs
• ¼ cup cornstarch
• ½ cup hot water
• 1 cup dry red wine chilled
• 1 cup heavy cream whipped
• thinly sliced plums for garnish

Procedures

1. In large non-aluminum soup pot, combine first five ingredients.
2. Bring to boil; add plums.
3. Simmer 30 minutes; strain through fine sieve.
4. Discard solids.
5. Mix cornstarch with cold water to make slurry (thin paste).
6. Beat slurry into hot soup, stirring constantly.
7. Continuing to stir, bring soup back to boil, them remove from heat.
8. Chill.
9. Just before serving, stir in wine.
10. Top each serving with spoonful of whipped cream, thinly sliced plums.