Okroshka from Soup: A Way of Life by Barbara Kafka

Name: Okroshka from Soup: A Way of Life by Barbara Kafka
Ingredients: ½ pound (225 ml) cold roast beef, chicken, veal, and/or ham, cut into ½-inch (1-cm) dice; 1 pound (450 g) Russian pumpernickel or black bread plus 4 cups (1 l) boiling water; or 4 cups (1 l) light beer; 5 leaves Bibb lettuce, washed, center ribs cut out, and shredded; 1 medium scallion, trimmed and thinly sliced across; 1 medium cucumber, peeled, seeded, and cut into ¼-inch (.5-cm) dice; ¼ cup (60 g) sour cream; Kosher salt, to taste; 1 hard-boiled egg; ¼ teaspoon dry mustard

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Okroshka, a Russian soup, is cold and undoubtedly has the oddest-sounding set of ingredients of all these soups, more like a salad than a soup, and yet it works wonderfully well. The sourovetz is a...

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Ingredients

½ pound (225 ml) cold roast beef, chicken, veal, and/or ham, cut into ½-inch (1-cm) dice
1 pound (450 g) Russian pumpernickel or black bread plus 4 cups (1 l) boiling water; or 4 cups (1 l) light beer
5 leaves Bibb lettuce, washed, center ribs cut out, and shredded
1 medium scallion, trimmed and thinly sliced across
1 medium cucumber, peeled, seeded, and cut into ¼-inch (.5-cm) dice
¼ cup (60 g) sour cream
Kosher salt, to taste
1 hard-boiled egg
¼ teaspoon dry mustard