Sour Cabbage Soup (was Re: SC - pierogys)

[Jenne Heise]

> >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. 
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