Name of Polish soup [barszcz]?

one can buy "starter" at the store.

if my poor matka was alive today she would be turning in her grave laughing. she would just love a computer and be reading all this crap.

I am trying to find a recipe that has mushrooms in the Barszcz. I grew up with this soup every Easter, however once my Babci past away, the trade secrets were never past one. We would have this soup and once placed on the table we would add fried potatoes to it. Does anyone know of this soup and what kind of mushrooms (I believe they come from poland)

I adore barszcz! Especially with eggs and potatoes mmmm

never heard of it this way. maybe it's mushrom soup and not borsch?

or zurek?

BORSCHT - This is what I grew up with as our traditional Easter breakfast meal. My Mom also added some cream to the stock. In the bowl we added a touch of horseradish instead of more vinigar. I have never found anyone who has shared this version or tradition. This is so cool. We have it once a year. Happy Easter!

Please search the word Borscht on Wikipedia. Although the information is not very thorough, you will find that this is the Russian spelling.

Growing up, the Easter soup we ate was made of some type of fermented grain. I am not sure but, I always thought my uncle started making this soup at the beginning of lent. by Easter, the big glass jar would have a top layer of "something" that you would have to scoop away to get the broth. At that point, it was diluted with water, and you added your horseradish, your pieces of easter ham, your easter eggs, potatoe,and dipped your rye bread into it as you ate. Nasty looking stuff by Easter, but what a taste! Today, we use the Polish sausage water/vinegar/horseradish mixture as our broth. We always called the Easter Soup borscht too, even though we called our beet soup-borscht.

Hi I am not surprised so many Polish people do not know the Barsc soup you are talking about some do not realise what they have, I have noticed that in some of the Europeon shops here in the uk they sell it in a packet like the english Knorr soup. you should also try Bigos "Hunters Stew" its great