about borsht

[William Ryan]

John Langran wrote:
> Рецептов борща уйма. Сколько хозяек - столько и рецептов!

How true - and for confusion worse confounded compare cookbooks and 
dictionaries. I once had to copy-edit the Russian section of an 
(English-language) encyclopedia of cookery and found that it contained 
five different recipes for borshch, each with its own spelling of 
borshch, and, if I remember correctly, a couple more for borshchok, the 
variant of course being 'shch'.

Will Ryan

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