Sour-Cherry Soup, Hungarian Style

2 Tb flour
1 cup sour cream
Pinch of salt
1 tsp confectionerUs sugar
1 pound fresh sour cherries, pitted (or hulled strawberries)
3/4 cup granulated sugar

Stir flour with sour cream, salt & confectionerUs sugar till smooth.

Meantime cook sour cherries in 1 1/2 quarts water with granulated sugar till
done.

Take 2 ladlefuls of liquid from the cherry pot and add to the flour mixture;
stir for a few mins.

Pour the mixture back into the soup and simmer for 5 mins. Cover the soup
and let it cool that way; this way it wonUt develop a skin. Adjust salt.

Makes: 6-8 servings