Green Puree Soup of Sorrel or Spinach

Ingredients

• funt beef
• funt ham
• dried mushrooms
• bunch greens
• funt sorrel
• funt spinach
• lozhka flour
• lozhka butter
• onion
• stakan smetana
• tsp baking soda

Instructions

1. Boil a bouillon of beef, ham, mushrooms, roots, and greens; strain.
2. Cook sorrel in its own juice, rub through a sieve, thin with bouillon, and thicken with slaked flour.
3. Blanch spinach with soda, rub through a sieve, and mix with butter.
4. Off the heat, combine bouillon with the spinach, mushrooms, and smetana; serve at once.
5. Garnish with ham, eggs, meatballs, or other accompaniments.