Name: Winter Fruit Soup
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 4 h 15 min
Total time: 4 h 20 min
Yield: 8 Servings
Ingredients: ½ cup sugar; Pinch of salt; 1 bottle fruity red wine, such as Merlot or Shiraz; 1 cup unsweetened applesauce; Leaves from 2 small sprigs fresh thyme; ¾ cup golden raisins, dried cranberries, and/or currants, in any combination; Juice and finely grated zest of ½ lemon; 3 cups water, divided; 2 cinnamon sticks; 3 tablespoons instant tapioca, or 2 tablespoons tapioca starch; 16 pitted prunes, quartered; 24 dried whole apricots, quartered

Preparation info

8
Servings

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
4 hr 30

Appears in

Art of the Slow Cooker

By Andrew Schloss

Published 2008

About

Forget your chicken soup and the megadoses of vitamin C and zinc. This pungent, fragrant soup is all you need to cure anything from the common cold to mild depression. Faintly intoxicating, radiating cinnamon, lemon, and thyme, and plush with fruit, this elixir is pure comfort food. Serve it warm before a winter stew or roast, or chilled as a dessert dolloped with a scoop of ice cream.