Shchi with Mushrooms (Buttered)

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 funt (~3 glasses) sauerkraut
• 2 onion
• 2 ложка (spoon) Finnish (unsalted) butter
• 1/8 funt dried mushrooms
• 1 ложка (spoon) flour
• 6 plain peppercorns
• 1/2-1 stakan sour cream (smetana)

Instructions

1. Fry chopped onion in butter, add sauerkraut, fry, thin with mushroom broth; simmer.
2. Make a flour-butter roux with mushroom broth, stir into the shchi with shredded mushrooms; boil.
3. Season with salt and pepper, add sour cream.