barszcz

alternative borszcz

1. rareuncountablePolish borscht.

   BIALY BARSZCZ WIELKANOCNA (WHITE EASTER BARSZCZ) […] Into wide soup bowls, ladle barszcz.

   1991, Tom Bernardin, “Poland”, in The Ellis Island Immigrant Cookbook, updated edition, New York, N.Y.: Tom Bernardin, Inc., published July 1997, →ISBN, page 78

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   Slimakowa looked him up and down, gave him a bowl of barszcz and another of potatoes, and told him to wash in the river.

   1921, Selected Polish Tales, page 7

   She poured herself another glass of Bulgarian white, and spooned up the remainder of her barszcz before polishing off the small meat pasty that is always served with beetroot soup.

   1990, Anton Gill, Berlin to Bucharest: Travels in Eastern Europe, page 62

   […] cutlery and glasses would appear and then dish after dish of fish en gelée, bowls of barszcz with twisted puff pastry sticks, bigos, pierogi, sliced ham, fresh and picked vegetables, bottled fruits, cakes, tarts and bottles and bottles of flavoured vodkas.

   1999, Cold War, Common Pursuit: British Council Lecturers in Poland, page 73

   Women bustled about laying out large platters of chicken, kielbasa rings, heaping bowls of golabki, pierogi and steaming tureens of barszcz.

   2004, Helen McCourt Mentek, “The Wheel of Life”, in Ripples on a Puddle: A Collection of Short Stories, Victoria, B.C.: Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 228