Elderberry Soup With Dumplings and Apples
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INGREDIENTS 8 cups elderberry juice
Peel of 1 lemon
2 ounces tapioca
1 pound sour apples, chopped, with peel
Corn starch
Sugar
1/8 cup rum, optional
DumplingsMix juice with lemon peel and bring to a boil. Add tapioca and stir until boiling. Add chopped apples (do not remove peel) and simmer for 15 minutes. Add sugar and rum to taste.
Serve over dumplings.
As an alternative, you might replace the apples with fresh or canned quince. In this case, do not add rum or tapioca.
TO MAKE DUMPLINGS - Mix 1/2 cup of milk with 1-ounce butter and a dash each of salt and nutmeg. Bring to a boil. Sift in 1/4 pound of flour and stir well. Take the mix off the stove, pour it into a bowl, and immediately mix in 2 medium eggs. Drop teaspoonfuls of the mix into boiling salted water. Let simmer for 10 to 15 minutes.