YSU65
25 Apr 2011
Food / Borscht - Zurek / Bialy barszcz recipe [153]
My grandmother made the soup on both Christmas day and Easter Sunday. Probably because I liked it and was the only grandchild living there and she spoiled me. We made a vegetarian version with fermented oatmeal for the meatless meal preceding the holidays. Remember this is from farm people who migrated to the USA before the First World War. I'm sure that every family in every village had their own version.
We used the water from boiling kielbasa, thickened it with flour, added sour cream and vinegar to taste. We then put in chopped hard boiled eggs, sausage - and ham - if I could sneak some off before it was put in the oven for dinner.
The big advantage I have now is that we make our own kielbasa, using the Enterprise stuffing machine my grandfather bought probably 90 years ago! My son has a smoke house and I get lots of cherry scraps from my wood shop.
We also make kiszka, but that is a tale for another time...
My grandmother made the soup on both Christmas day and Easter Sunday. Probably because I liked it and was the only grandchild living there and she spoiled me. We made a vegetarian version with fermented oatmeal for the meatless meal preceding the holidays. Remember this is from farm people who migrated to the USA before the First World War. I'm sure that every family in every village had their own version.
We used the water from boiling kielbasa, thickened it with flour, added sour cream and vinegar to taste. We then put in chopped hard boiled eggs, sausage - and ham - if I could sneak some off before it was put in the oven for dinner.
The big advantage I have now is that we make our own kielbasa, using the Enterprise stuffing machine my grandfather bought probably 90 years ago! My son has a smoke house and I get lots of cherry scraps from my wood shop.
We also make kiszka, but that is a tale for another time...