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Zuppa di Ciliegie

Name: Zuppa di Ciliegie
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: San Marino
Ingredients: 400g Cherries; 200ml Red wine; 80g Sugar; 1 Cinnamon stick; A pinch Lemon zest; 4 fillets Baguette

Dessert

⏱ 30 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Cherries simmered in red wine and sugar and spooned over toasted bread — a Sammarinese early-summer dessert.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Zuppa di ciliegie means 'cherry soup,' a traditional Sammarinese dessert: seasonal cherries are simmered with red wine, sugar, and cinnamon and spooned over toasted bread. It's a simple sweet made at home in early summer, cherry season.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a Sammarinese home in early summer, deep red wine-simmered cherries are spooned generously over toasted bread.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Cherries 400g
Red wine 200ml
Sugar 80g
Cinnamon stick 1
Lemon zest A pinch
Baguette 4 fillets

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Pit the cherries.
Bring the red wine, sugar, cinnamon, and lemon zest to a boil in a pot.
Add the cherries and simmer on low for 15 minutes.
Toast the bread until golden.
Put the bread in bowls and spoon over the warm cherries with their syrup.

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