The James T. Callow Folklore Archive

Fruit soup

I was told about this very old Polish dish by my
father, who was told about it by his mother. This
is a dish that is only served on Christmas and
under no condition anytime else. The dish is called
fruit soup. As you can guess it is made from fruit.
When it was made no set amounts of ingredients were
ever written down. It was all by inspection. The list
of ingredients are as follows.
freeze dried apples
freeze dried plums
freeze dried apricots
freeze dried bananas
freeze dried pears
freeze dried oranges
freeze dried kiwi
prunes
prune juice
mushroom juice
All the fruits are freeze dried because if they weren't
the soup would be too sweet-- the same reason why the
prunes, prune juice, and mushroom juice are added.
As an after note. I've tasted this soup only once and
it was once too often.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN