Cooking Borscht • Borscht with Brisket and Duck

Ingredients

• Water – 10 cups
• Beef sirloin – 10 oz
• Beef bones or bare ribs – 17 oz
• Salt – ½ teaspoon
• Dried porcini mushrooms – 1 oz
• Water – 2 cups
• Duck – 10 oz
• Drawn butter – 1 tablespoon
• Salt – to taste
• Beetroot – 6 oz
• Fresh green cabbage – 10 oz
• 1 carrot
• ½ parsley root
• ½ celery root
• 1 leek
• 1 yellow onion
• Drawn butter – 2 tablespoons
• Tomato puree – 3 tablespoons
• All purpose flour – 2 tablespoons
• Garlic – 3 cloves
• Sugar – 2 teaspoons
• White vinegar – 2 teaspoons
• 3-4 peppercorns
• 2 bay leaves
• Sour cream
• Chopped parsley