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There are many variations of any recipe for a soup that includes chopped vegetables. They depend on the ingenuity of the cook and the size of the purse... not to mention a few other things like climate and war, and even political leanings. (I know several earnest thoughtful women who would rather see their children peaked than brew something with the foreign name minestrone, because in this year of 1942 the United States is at war with Italy. There is a fundamental if tiring truth about all this, and you and I can only hope that right will conquer over might before too long.) [In the 1950s some people feel helplessly antagonistic to borscht! Fortunately, I do not.]