Buttermilk Soup

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon flour
• 1 quart buttermilk
• 1/2 cup raisins or dried apricot or prune (if using apricots or prunes, cut them into raisin-sized pieces)
• 1 piece cinnamon stick
• sugar
• 2 egg yolks or whipped cream

Directions

1. 1

   Mix flour with a tablespoon of buttermilk; bring remaining buttermilk to the boiling point, add flour mixture and stir well.

2. 2

   Add fruit and small piece of stick cinnamon.

3. 3

   Cook until fruit becomes soft.

4. 4

   When ready to serve, sweeten soup with sugar to taste and add whipped cream.

5. 5

   If preferred, the sugar may be beaten with the egg yolks and added to soup just before serving.