Somma (summer) Or Krut (weed) Borscht

Total Time: 2 hrs 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 2 hrs

Ingredients

• 10 cups water
• 3 pieces of farmer sausage, 6 inch pieces (or more)
• 1/2 cup chopped green onion top
• 2 cups chopped fresh sorrel
• 1/3 cup fresh dill sprig
• 3 -4 medium potatoes, diced
• 3 sprigs parsley
• 1 bay leaf
• 8 peppercorns
• salt
• sour cream

Recipe

• 1 to the water in a large soup pot, add the farmer sausage and cook for about 1 hour: this makes your soup stock.
• 2 remove the pieces of sausage and let cool, then remove the casing and cut up into bit size pieces.
• 3 add potatoes, onion greens, dill green, parsley, sorrel, bay leaf and peppercorns (in a spice bag or container) to the stock.
• 4 cook this until potatoes are done.
• 5 add the farmer sausage pieces back into the soup.
• 6 add salt to taste.
• 7 serve hot with heaping tablespoon of sour cream in each serving.
• 8 good served with fresh homemade brown bread.
• 9 the farmer sausage can be substituted with a smoked ham hock.