white borscht

There is even a white borscht made with cabbage and the winter vegetables found in the other full-bodied borschts.

Other varieties that do not use beetroot also exist, such as green borscht and white borscht.

Specialities include zurek (a white borscht), wild boar, and strudel.

A variant made with wheat flour instead of rye is known in Poland as barszcz biały ("white borscht").

The white borscht, for example, is a creamy soup of stock, cream, dill and dried mushrooms with a touch of a rye-flour sourdough starter.

On Woodward Avenue, the New Warsaw restaurant offers white borscht and kotlet schabowy (pork chops).

The white borscht, made with soured wheat, potatoes, kielbasa and hard-boiled egg, was less interesting — though the menu promised creamy, it was closer to thin.

On the next day, the white borscht would reappear on the Easter table, but this time, in its more coveted, meat-based guise with sausage, bacon and eggs.

Zurek, a white borscht soured with fermented bread and served with diced veal sausage, offered an unusual, tart flavor and sparked the appetite.

The white borscht, which is slightly sour, milky and dotted through with perfect chunks of potato and hunks of smoky, firm kielbasa, is a personal favorite.

Dishes that are especially warming when the cold winds blow are the sour-bread soup called zurek or white borscht, and the slow-cooked hunter's stew called bigos.

A stroll up Nassau or Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint gives an entrée to Polish culture: Lomzynianka (646 Manhattan Avenue) offers a white borscht - a creamy broth with potatoes and sausage - that should not be missed.

A bright red variation on that ($1.25) - no sour cream - is delicate and sweet, filled with lovely circular dumplings stuffed with ground mushrooms, while white borscht ($1.25) might as well be called kielbasa soup, a hearty potato broth thick with smoky chunks of sausage.

Youths used celebrate Holy Saturday, the last day of the fast, with a mock "funeral" of the white borscht, in which a pot of the soup was either buried in the ground or broken, sometimes - to the crowd's amusement - while being carried by an unsuspecting boy on his head.