Rassolnik (Pickled-Cucumber Soup)
Origin: Saint Petersburg, Russia
Source: Elena Molokhovets (Елена Молоховец), 1901
Ingredients
- salted (pickled) cucumbers
- cucumber brine (rassol)
- bouquet bouquet of greens
- onion
- funt root vegetables
- funt roots with potato
- ложка (spoon) butter
- ложка (spoon) flour
- stakan pearl barley
- stakan sour cream (smetana)
- bay leaf, English & plain pepper
- dill
Instructions
- Cook a white broth from roots, onions, potato, greens, cucumber peels and pickling spices; strain.
- Scald the peeled, turned roots with boiling water and continue as in No. 37 (rassolnik with kidney).