I keep playing back the clip of Stephen referring to it by its Hungarian name, and I haven’t the foggiest at how to spell it it appears that he was attempting to say “Hideg Meggyleves“.
Anyhow, here’s one blogger’s recipe:
Monday, July 18, 2005
Hungarian Cold Sour Cherry Soup
by Annamaria Kovacs1 24 oz. glass jar of sour cherries, already stemmed and pitted, drained. You can use the light syrup as a cold fruit drink, it’s traditional
6 cups of water (by the way, if in a hard water area like us, do everyone in your family a favor and invest in either a BRITA pitcher or a filter on your kitchen tap. The results of using filtered water for coffee, soups and just plain ol’ drinking water are rather dramatic…)
UPDATE:
And thanks to thisniss, we’ve found out that there’s a recipe on Wikiality.com. Wikiality – it tastes so truthy it must be fattening.
I’ve always assumed that it’s ghoulash, though I can’t be certain.
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This “cold sour cherry soup” is also really popular in Poland. Just an FYI. :)
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It’s Hideg Meggyleves. You can read another recipe at wikiality.com/Hideg_Meggyleves And because I’m certain you’re dying to know this…
“hideg” = cold, “Meggy”=cherry, “leves”=soup
Impressive, eh? For the my entire Hungarian vocabulary, you can read the “Hungaria” article at Wikiality. (I lived in Budapest in the mid-90′s while a college student. It’s all a bit hazy.) ;)
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