🇵🇱 PolandCatalog recipe
A light, barely sweet fruit drink of simmered apples and sour cherries, served by the jugful at Polish family dinners.
For 8 servings.
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Bring the water to a boil with the sugar and cinnamon stick.
Add the apples and cherries and simmer gently for 15 minutes, until the fruit softens and the liquid takes on color.
Taste and adjust the sugar — kompot should be refreshing, not syrupy.
💡 Sourness from the cherries is the point; err on less sugar.
Cool to room temperature, then chill.
Serve cold with some fruit in each glass and a spoon to fish it out.
Kompot is the default drink of the Polish home kitchen, made from whatever the orchard or freezer offers and served with dinner instead of soda. A cherry-and-apple version in a sweating glass jug is as much a part of summer as the fruit trees themselves.
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