Rassolnik (Pickled-Cucumber Soup)

Ingredients

• 6-8 salted (pickled) cucumbers
• cucumber brine (rassol)
• 1 bouquet bouquet of greens
• 2 onion
• 3/4 funt root vegetables
• 1 funt roots with potato
• 1/2 ложка (spoon) butter
• 1 ложка (spoon) flour
• 1/3 stakan pearl barley
• 3/4 stakan sour cream (smetana)
• bay leaf, English & plain pepper
• dill

Instructions

1. Cook a white broth from roots, onions, potato, greens, cucumber peels and pickling spices; strain.
2. Scald the peeled, turned roots with boiling water and continue as in No. 37 (rassolnik with kidney).