Pluma Moos

  Everyone in our family, right down to our smallest member, is totally addicted to this amazingly easy dessert. This comes courtesy of my mother's Mennonite heritage. I remember gobbling down bowlfuls of this stuff at my grandmother's kitchen table. Maybe that's part of the reason I feel compelled to make this for my kids? This is essentially a cold fruit soup that you can make in the summer with fresh fruit, or in the winter with tinned and dried fruit. It's an awesome way to get your kids to eat more fruit, especially of the, ahem, regularizing kind. If you're using fresh apples or apricots instead of dried, use 11/4 cups of the fresh fruit in place of the dried.

• 2/3 cup each of: raisins, chopped dried apricots, chopped dried apple, pitted prunes

• 1 cup blueberries

• 1 1/2 cups fresh (pitted or not, as you like)or canned cherries

• 4 cups water

• juice from canned cherries, or 1 pkt cherry jello powder

• 1/2 cup cold water

• 1.5 tablespoons each of cornstarch and flour

Heat dried fruit and first quantity of water in a large pot. Allow to simmer gently for 15 minutes. Add fresh blueberries, cherries and jello powder or cherry juice. Simmer 10 minutes more. Shake second quantity of water in a sealer with flour. Stir flour & water mixture into the simmer fruit mixture. Cook and stir 5 more minutes. Eat warm, or chill and serve with or without cream.

Comments

[pity]

this looks delicious and very healthy, i love it! well done,

cheers from london,

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[pity]

what a lovely piece of sweet dessert, your photos are lovely and your recipes very interesting, i iwll come back to your bog for sure,

cheers from london,

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