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RECIPES FROM THE RETRO HOUSEWIFE

SOUPS

SUPA DE MERE (Apple Soup), Romanian

Ingredients

• 4 or 5 apples (sour or Pippin)
• 1 tbsp. sugar
• 1/2 lemon juice
• 1/2 lemon slices
• Cinnamon to taste
• 2 tbsp. flour
• 1 cup sweet cream
• 1 egg yolk
• salt to taste

Preparation Instructions

Boil apples in about 3 quarts water. Add sugar, lemon, cinnamon and salt. Beat flour with yolk only (egg white will curdle), stir in the cream and add to soup which is done and barely simmering. Set aside a few minutes before serving. Serve with croutons, crackers, toasted bread cubes, etc.

Contributed by Mrs. John Crisan, 1950

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