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Cabbage-based soup known as shchi. Shchi (Russian: щи) is a national dish of Russia. While commonly it is made of cabbage, dishes of the same name may be based on dock, spinach or nettle. The sauerkraut variant of cabbage soup is known to Russians as "sour shchi" ("кислые щи"), as opposed to fresh cabbage shchi. An idiom in Russian ...
The earliest known cookery manuscript in the English language, The Forme of Cury, written by the court chefs of King Richard II, [6] contains several pottage recipes including one made from cabbage, ham, onions and leeks. [7] Google Books and Internet Archive. A slightly later manuscript from the 1430s is called Potage Dyvers ("Various Pottages ...
Fresh legumes were also roasted, or dried and stored for extended periods. They were then cooked in a soup or a stew. The Bible mentions roasted legumes (2 Samuel 17:28), and relates how Jacob prepared bread and a pottage of lentils for Esau (Genesis 25:29–34). [15] [31]
Shchi (from Old East Slavic: съти, the plural of "съто" (s(i)to) – "something satisfying, feed") [3] is a traditional soup of Russia. Cabbage soups have been known in Kievan Rus as far back as the 9th century, soon after cabbage was introduced from Byzantium. Its popularity in Russia originates from several factors:
Although this phrase is often used to describe or allude to Esau's bargain, the phrase itself does not appear in the text of any English version of Genesis. Its first attested use, [2] already associated with Esau's bargain, is in the English summary of one of John Capgrave's sermons, c. 1452, "[Jacob] supplanted his broþir, bying his fader blessing for a mese of potage."
Okroshka is a cold soup of Russian origin. Partan bree is a Scottish soup made with crabmeat and rice. [21] Patsás is made with tripe in Greece. It is also cooked in Turkey and the Balkan Peninsula. "Peasants' soup" is a catch-all term for soup made by combining a diverse—and often eclectic—assortment of ingredients.
Vegetable soup dates to ancient history. A 5th-century Roman cookbook included a recipe for "a forerunner of onion soup." [15] Broth is mentioned by approximately the year 1000 and potage by the 1400s. [16] Clifford Wright has stated that cabbage soup was important in medieval Italian cuisine. [17]
The Bible [1] is a collection of religious texts or scriptures which to a certain degree are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baháʼí Faith, and other Abrahamic religions. The Bible is an anthology (a compilation of texts of a variety of forms) originally written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Koine Greek. The ...