Cooking Borscht • Homemade Borscht with Sausage, Ham or Meat

Ingredients

• Water – 8 cups
• Beef bones – 25 oz
• Salt – 1 ½ teaspoon
• Fermented beets – 28 oz
• 1 carrot
• 1 parsley root
• 1 celery root
• 1 yellow onion
• Tomato juice – 1 cup
• Butter – 2 tablespoons
• Fermented beet brine – 2 cups
• Smoked ham – 7 oz
• All purpose flour – 1 tablespoon
• Salt – to taste
• Sour cream
• Fresh minced garlic
• Chopped dill