16 Salted cucumber soup or rassol’nik

Name: Salted cucumber soup or rassol’nik (Sup iz solenykh ogurtsov ili razsol’nik)
Cuisine: Russia
Ingredients: 1 spoon flour; (½ to 1½ glass sour cream); 12 potatoes; 6 small salted cucumbers with brine; 6 small salted cucumbers with brine; 2–3 dried mushrooms; 1–2 bay leaves; 1 leek; 1 celery root; 1 parsley root; (1 beef kidney); (1 beef kidney); 2½ to 3 lbs beef

Sup iz solenykh ogurtsov ili razsol’nik

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

A Gift to Young Housewives

By Elena Molokhovets

Published 1992

About

Ingredients

2½ to 3 lbs beef
(1 beef kidney)
1 parsley ro

Europe
Russia
Eastern Europe
Soup

Method

Prepare a bouillon as usual from 2½ to 3 lbs of beef and add, if desired, 1 beef kidney. Add root vegetables, spices, and 2–3 dried mushrooms. Boil and strain. Peel, slice, and cook 6 small salted cucumbers [in the bouillon]. If necessary, add some cucumber brine to make it pleasantly sour. Slice