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Maizes Zupa

Name: Maizes Zupa
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Latvia
Ingredients: 300g Rye bread; 1 Apples; 50g Raisins; 50g Dried Apricots; 80g Sugar; 1 tsp Cinnamon powder; 1 tbsp Lemon juice; 150ml Heavy Cream; 1L Water

Dessert

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐

Rye bread simmered with dried fruit and topped with whipped cream — Latvia's sweet 'bread soup.'

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Maizes zupa means 'bread soup,' but it's actually a dessert of rye bread simmered with apple, dried plums, and raisins and sweetened with sugar and cinnamon. Born from the wisdom of not wasting stale bread, it's chilled and eaten topped with whipped cream.

🌆 Where it's eaten: After dinner in a Latvian home, thick brown bread dessert is spooned into bowls and topped with white whipped cream.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Rye bread 300g
Apples 1
Raisins 50g
Dried Apricots 50g
Sugar 80g
Cinnamon powder 1 tsp
Lemon juice 1 tbsp
Heavy Cream 150ml
Water 1L

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Tear the rye bread into small pieces and dry in the oven.
Put the bread and water in a pot and leave 1 hour to soften.
Simmer 10 minutes, then press through a sieve or mash until smooth.
Add chopped apple, raisins, apricots, sugar, cinnamon, and lemon juice and simmer 15 minutes.
Chill, spoon into bowls, and top with whipped cream.

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