Cherry Soup with Smolensk Grits

Ingredients

• 2 funt beef
• 1 carrot
• 1 bunch greens
• 1 funt cherries
• 1 funt veal
• cinnamon
• 3 grains cardamom
• 1/2 lozhka butter
• 1/2 funt sour-sweet bread
• 1/2 stakan sugar
• 1/2 stakan Smolensk grits
• 1 egg

Instructions

1. Boil and strain a white beef bouillon.
2. Stew pitted cherries with veal, cinnamon, cardamom, and butter in bouillon.
3. Add strained crushed-stone infusion and grated sour-sweet bread; cook until the puree thickens.
4. Rub the puree, thin with bouillon, and season with sugar and salt.
5. Prepare crumbly Smolensk-grits kasha and stir into the soup.