lynne
23 Mar 2008
Food / Borscht - Zurek / Bialy barszcz recipe [153]
Growing up, the Easter soup we ate was made of some type of fermented grain. I am not sure but, I always thought my uncle started making this soup at the beginning of lent. by Easter, the big glass jar would have a top layer of "something" that you would have to scoop away to get the broth. At that point, it was diluted with water, and you added your horseradish, your pieces of easter ham, your easter eggs, potatoe,and dipped your rye bread into it as you ate. Nasty looking stuff by Easter, but what a taste! Today, we use the Polish sausage water/vinegar/horseradish mixture as our broth. We always called the Easter Soup borscht too, even though we called our beet soup-borscht.
Growing up, the Easter soup we ate was made of some type of fermented grain. I am not sure but, I always thought my uncle started making this soup at the beginning of lent. by Easter, the big glass jar would have a top layer of "something" that you would have to scoop away to get the broth. At that point, it was diluted with water, and you added your horseradish, your pieces of easter ham, your easter eggs, potatoe,and dipped your rye bread into it as you ate. Nasty looking stuff by Easter, but what a taste! Today, we use the Polish sausage water/vinegar/horseradish mixture as our broth. We always called the Easter Soup borscht too, even though we called our beet soup-borscht.