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| i don't know what borscht recipe you're looking at but it's nothing like my wife's. Her version is very clean (i.e. after years of marriage I got her away from her sour cream and mayonnaise upbringing. ) | |
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But can one still consider it borscht without all the good stuff??
I had some version of it when I was visiting some relatives in Latvia ("no we are not Russians!") and it was pretty tasty. I remember lots of veggies in it, maybe a bit of sausage or something. And the sour cream.