Our Polish barszcz is well known to everyone here ... barszczu (On the Names and Uses of Ćwikła, Beetroot and Borscht, 1916) this doesn’t necessarily mean a soup was instantly made with beetroot: Only ...

It takes time to make, but it's not a complicated soup recipe. "This is a version of Borscht my mother's Polish family has made for many generations. I remember HATING this soup as a kid.

Polish people, on the other hand, first made borscht from a plant called barszcz in Polish (hercleum sphondylium in Latin), which grows tall on meadows and near villages, and blooms in June. Evidently ...

De Gouy describes a Polish borscht (bortsch Polonaise ... Doing so will yield a tasty broth as a byproduct that can be added to the soup. If using a tough cut of meat, gloriously crisscrossed ...