Sour cucumber soup with shredded or chopped gherkins is typically Polish, omnipresent in daily cooking ... It calls for young beets, their leaves and stalks, soured milk (buttermilk or kefir), acid ...

Essentially the same thing as Russian 'borscht,' this nourishing beetroot soup may be served with potatoes ... which includes veggies, chunks of beet and cream, and 'barszcz biały' (white barszcz) - ...

Recently, borscht, the comforting beet soup, has received the limelight as an example of culinary tension ... Meanwhile, the country's spin on red barszcz often employs fermented beets to amplify the ...