Mushroom Soup with Pearl Barley

Ingredients

• 2 carrot
• 1 parsley root
• 1 celery
• 1 leek
• 2 onion
• 1/8 funt dried mushrooms
• 1/2 stakan pearl barley
• 1/2 ложка (spoon) flour
• 8 potato
• 1 1/2 ложка (spoon) butter
• beet brine (svekolny rassol)
• 1 stakan sour cream (smetana)
• parsley greens, dill

Instructions

1. Fry chopped roots and onion in butter, dust with flour, thin with water, add dried mushrooms, cook, strain.
2. Add beet brine and pearl barley, cook; add peeled potatoes.
3. Finish with sour cream, salt, shredded mushrooms and greens; serve with dumpling ears or fritters (No. 293/352).