Fresh Tomato Puree Soup

Ingredients

• 2 1/2 funt beef
• 1/2 funt veal shank
• 3/4 funt base roots
• 1 bunch greens
• 2-8 tomatoes
• 1/2 stakan pearl barley or rice
• 1/2 lozhka butter
• 3/4 stakan smetana
• dill

Instructions

1. Boil a white bouillon of beef, veal shank, roots, and greens; strain.
2. Seed, chop, and stew the tomatoes in butter; boil with bouillon and rub through a sieve.
3. Add separately boiled pearl barley or rice, smetana, and all the bouillon; boil once.
4. Serve with dill and pirozhki, croutons, or stuffed tomatoes.