Purée Soup of Cherries with Smolensk Groats

Ingredients

• 1 funt root vegetables
• 1 funt potato
• 1 funt cherries
• 1 1/2 vershok cinnamon
• 2 zolotnik cardamom
• 1/2 ложка (spoon) butter
• 1/2 stakan (glass) sugar
• 1/2 funt grated sweet-sour bread
• red wine
• 1/2 stakan Smolensk groats (fine buckwheat)
• 1 egg
• 3/4 stakan water
• salt

Instructions

1. Cook a broth from 1 funt of root vegetables and 1 funt of potato; strain.
2. Prepare the rest as in No. 89. Red wine may be added to each bowl.
3. Serve the roots as a second course with butter and rusks, garnished with croutons or a milk-soaked, fried roll.