A nostalgic return to fruit soup: Can childhood trauma be healed?
8 July 2024 16:21
Fruit soup is, for many of us, a childhood trauma. Even today's children don't particularly enjoy this school treat. However, there is a way to convince them that this dish can be truly delicious. You'll need a bit of faith and a generous handful of forest fruits.
When we wrote an article here about the most hated dishes from the past, we were pretty harsh on fruit soup. We don't think you should blame us for this — you probably associate this dish with the torment endured in the school canteen. Poor students would flee from such a meal as quickly as they could. The real problem arose when the same soup awaited them at home.
The disdain for fruit soup can be rationally explained. It was served as an unappetising, hot compote with overcooked noodles for many years. No one should expect children to think: "When I grow up, I'll eat this soup every day, and no one will stop me!" Quite the opposite happened; every student declared that they would never touch fruit soup again once they left school. It was the same for us, but only up to a certain point.
Today, we believe that fruit soup — just like liver — deserves a second chance. We considered it a challenge: can we make fruit soup taste good? The recipe we are about to share might redeem this dish, and who knows? Maybe even your children will like it. Let us know how it goes!
Fruit soup, but this time tasty!
Ingredients:
- 800 grams of forest fruits (raspberries, currants, cherries, etc.),
- 1 litre of water,
- 150 millilitres of 30% cream,
- 200 grams of raw pasta,
- sugar.
Preparation method:
- Place the washed and, if necessary, pitted fruits in a pot, cover with water, and bring to a boil.
- After about 20 minutes, sweeten to taste with sugar. When the soup reaches the desired flavour, could you wait until it cools and blends? You can skip this step, but in our opinion, blending makes the soup more substantial.
- Add the cream, and cook and drain the pasta separately. Serve the soup with the pasta, garnishing with a mint leaf and a few whole forest fruits. Enjoy!
