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    • The Rose Garden’s Strawberry Melon Soup

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    INGREDIENTS

    1/2 Ripe honeydew melon
    2 tb Fresh lime juice
    Granulated sugar
    1 Pint of strawberries
    Cranberry juice or water

    INSTRUCTIONS

    Halve, seed, peel and cut melon into chunks.  Combine with lime juice and 1
teaspoon sugar in blender or food processor.  Refrigerate puree in 2 cup
measure.  Combine rinsed, stemmed berries and 2 tablespoons of sugar in
blender or food processor until smooth.  Place in 2-cup measure and if
needed stir in cranberry juice or water.  There should be equal amounts of
puree in the two measuring cups.  Chill 2 hours. Serve by pouring from each
measuring cup at same time into opposite sides of same bowl. Swirl with
knife to make patterns.  Repeat with other bowls. From The Rose Garden Bed
& Breakfast, 4 Upper Canada Dr., Niagara-On-The-Lake, Ontario.
Posted to MM-Recipes Digest V3 #282
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 96 20:53:04 UT
From: "Deborah Kühnen" <DEBKUHNEN@msn.com>

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