cold cherry soup?

[cellio]

I'm looking for a recipe for cold cherry soup that isn't thin and doesn't use cornstarch for thickening. Either that, or advice on getting cornstarch not to make lumps. Any favorites?

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[vonstrassburg.livejournal.com]

No-lump cornstarch (we call it "cornflour"): Use cold tap water, not fridge cold water. Add cornstarch. Stir using a mini-whisk or similar, not a fork. Let sit for a minute or so. Pour off the top section leaving a small amount of sludgey stuff at the bottom. Rinse, lather, repeat.

[ichur72.livejournal.com]

You could also use gelatin to thicken the soup ...

[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

Add modest amounts of liquid to the cornstarch, to make a paste. Mix thoroughly. Then add a generous amount of liquid. (Cornstarch, being a non-Newtonian fluid, needs to be diluted past that point to mix well.) Mix vigorously.

The fluid should be cold or cool - cornstarch reacts faster with hot liquids.

I feel as if I am telling you what you already know...

[sdorn.livejournal.com]

I'll admit I'm incredibly lazy: frozen bag o' cherries or strawberries plus fat-free plain yogurt. Wait 10 minutes. Works every time...

[hrj.livejournal.com]

Add little bits of room temperature (never hot) liquid to the cornstarch. When it gets to that "gloopy" stage where it's runny if you ignore it but gets hard if you press on it, mix until you're certain there are no dry pockets. Then continue adding room temperature liquid until it's completely runny. Add to your hot liquid in a thin stream while whisking constantly, and continue whisking constantly while it thickens. If some of the cornstarch has settled thickly in the bottom of the pouring container, either ignore it or thin it out with some more room temperature liquid. Never add hot liquid to the cornstarch solution -- always the other way around. It's the opposite rule than for egg yolks and hot liquids so this may be counter-intuitive. If you add hot liquid to the cornstarch solution, it "cooks" the cornstarch very intensely where it first hits it, forming the lumps you can never get rid of, whereas if you add the cornstarch solution to the hot liquid the cornstarch diffuses before it starts thickening up.