Cooking Borscht • Cold Borscht with Baby Beetroot

Ingredients

• Water – 3 cups
• Baby beetroot with greens – 12 oz
• 2 cucumbers
• Chopped green onions – 2 tablespoons
• Chopped dill – 2 tablespoons
• Chopped parsley – 2 tablespoons
• Rye bread brew (kwas) – 3 cups
• 4 hard boiled eggs
• Salt – to taste
• Sour cream – 4 tablespoons
• Rye bread – 5 oz
• Dry yeast – contents of 1 bag – ¼ oz
• Water – 12 cups
• Sugar – to taste
• Potatoes – 2 pounds
• 1 medium yellow onion
• 1 bay leaf
• Ground black pepper
• Chopped dill