borscht
Noun
Meaning
a Russian or Polish soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation
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A secret of borscht is accounting for the different cooking times of the ingredients, typically beetroot, carrots, beans, potatoes and some sort of meat, usually beef, but sometimes pork or chicken.
“The show is like a wacky borscht belt-style revue, but much hipper than anything your grandmother might have enjoyed.”
And that borscht recipe sounds fabulous.
I don’t use bottled beet borscht, finding it too sweet for my taste.
I first learned about cold borscht when I was going through my Holocaust phase as a kid.
The liquid in the borscht was stock made from ham bones, whole cloves of garlic, cubed yellow onions, and black peppercorns.