Sour Cabbage Soup (was Re: SC - pierogys)
Jenne Heise
jenne at mail.browser.net
Sun Dec 3 11:33:29 PST 2000
> >Pickled cabbage and 'sour cabbage' appear to be period, as mentioned in
> >the Domostroi (Russian Household Manual from the tiem of Ivan the
> >Terrible), so a sour kraut like dish would certain bein the period style.
>
> There is something in Domostroi that is translated "sour cabbage
> soup." It seems to be an ingredient, not a final product, and the
> context makes me suspect that the translation is wrong. One
> possibility is that it might be alegar--the equivalent of vinegar
> made from ale.
I would seriously doubt that it would be a vinegar product, because of the
context in which it occurs-- in the same room with fermented products.
--
Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise jenne at tulgey.browser.net
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hallucinations." -- Lady Jemina Starker
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