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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 ...
Minestrone. Minestrone (/ ˌ m ɪ n ə s ˈ t r oʊ n i /, Italian: [mineˈstroːne]) or minestrone di verdure is a thick soup of Italian origin based on vegetables. [a] It typically includes onions, carrots, celery, potatoes, cabbage, tomatoes, often legumes, such as beans, chickpeas or fava beans, and sometimes pasta or rice. [1]
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.
Traditional New Year's foods like cabbage, slow-cooked pork and long noodles are thought to bring luck and prosperity in the coming year. (Photo: Getty Creative) (MassanPH via Getty Images)
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:
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]
This incident is the origin of the phrase a "mess of pottage" (which is not in any Biblical text) to mean a bad bargain involving short-term gain and long-term loss. In the Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition translation of the Bible, the prophet Elisha purifies a pot of poisoned pottage that was set before the sons of the prophets ( 2 ...
As this trend took off, so did bakers' entrepreneurial spirits. The gingerbread man we all have come to know, love and adore started to take flight. To learn more about gingerbread, check out our ...