Sour-cherry soup, hungarian style

2 Tb flour
 1 cup sour cream
 Pinch of salt
 1 tsp confectionerUs sugar
 1 pound fresh sour cherries, pitted (or hulled strawberries)
 3/4 cup granulated sugar
 
 Stir flour with sour cream, salt & confectionerUs sugar till smooth.
 
 Meantime cook sour cherries in 1 1/2 quarts water with granulated sugar till 
 done.
 
 Take 2 ladlefuls of liquid from the cherry pot and add to the flour mixture; 
 stir for a few mins.
 
 Pour the mixture back into the soup and simmer for 5 mins. Cover the soup 
 and let it cool that way; this way it wonUt develop a skin. Adjust salt.
 
 Makes: 6-8 servings