Winter Fruit Soup

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup dried apricots (or peaches)
• 3/4 cup dried pitted prunes (quartered)
• 3 tbsp raisons
• 2 tbsp dried currents
• 1/8 tsp cinnamon
• Grated zest of 1 orange
• 2 tbsp quick cooking tapioca
• 4 cups apple juice (or cranberry juice, or water)
• 2 peeled and cut apples

Makes about 6 cups

Based on a recipe from 'The Joy of Cooking' by Rombauer, Becker and Becker.

Put the Apricots, prunes, raison, currents, cinnamon, and orange zest in a saucepan

Add the apple juice and tapioca.

Bring to a boil. Cook until the soup is thickened from the tapioca. This could take a while. Maybe 20 minutes.

Add the apples. Cook until the apples are tender (about 8 minutes)

Serve warm.