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This week the Chocolate Lady from In Mol Araan is making sorrel soup, also called Shtshav, schav, or szczaw, and named for the amazingly flavorful sorrel which is the main ingredient.
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bilby commented on the word szczaw
Polish - sorrel.
May 11, 2009
madmouth commented on the word szczaw
I like to play a little game that goes like this:
take a garden-variety Slavic name, then slap two or three "z"s on it--insta-Polish!
May 11, 2009
bilby commented on the word szczaw
And this particular one was ripe for transference into Yiddish almost as is.
May 11, 2009
madmouth commented on the word szczaw
an exclamation of disgust akin to 'feh'?
an Unsavoury Type?
May 11, 2009
kjola commented on the word szczaw
sorrel soup recipe anyone interested? ;)
May 12, 2009
bilby commented on the word szczaw
Yes please!
May 12, 2009
kjola commented on the word szczaw
Ha! So, if you are going to try the recipe from the link, bilby, don't forget to use 'sorrel' and not 'spinach', as they have erroneously written... but apparently spinach soup can be made in exactly the same way. I would add some cream though :)
May 13, 2009
bilby commented on the word szczaw
Can't get sorrel here *grumbles*
May 13, 2009
kjola commented on the word szczaw
use spinach then, squeeze in half a lemon, and bob's your uncle! (spinach, as far as I remember, is more bland than sorrel... but please, don't hold me responsible for this culinary experiment :D In Poland all the children universally claim that spinach is yuck! And sorrel is not eaten very often (methinks).
May 13, 2009
bilby commented on the word szczaw
What's half-and-half?
May 13, 2009
kjola commented on the word szczaw
I didn't know that word, really, but from the context I assume that it must be half-milk-half-cream-mixture (I would still prefer single or double cream, though)
May 13, 2009
qroqqa commented on the word szczaw
bilby: look in your garden. Wood sorrel is oxalis.
May 13, 2009
kjola commented on the word szczaw
The one that you can buy in Poland to make soup looks like this szczaw - sorrel
May 13, 2009
gangerh commented on the word szczaw
I czczame, I szczaw, I czczonquered. (Soz, czczouldn't resist).
May 13, 2009
kjola commented on the word szczaw
lol! I don't believe it! Good ol' szczaw made it to the top of the most commented words on Wordie! :D
May 14, 2009