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Cabbage soup

{{Short description|Soup dish}}

{{About|the soup|other uses|Cabbage soup (disambiguation)}}

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| main_ingredient = Sauerkraut/white cabbage

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| other = Shchi is generally made with cabbage. Borscht can be a cabbage soup as well.

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Cabbage soup may refer to any of the variety of soups based on various cabbages, or on sauerkraut and known under different names in national cuisines. Often it is a vegetable soup, with lentils, peas or beans in place of the meat. It may be prepared with different ingredients. Vegetarian cabbage soup may use mushroom stock. Another variety is using a fish stock. There is also a preference to cook cabbage soup using a pork stock.

In national cuisines

Cabbage soup is popular in Russian, Polish, Slovak and Ukrainian cuisine.

It is known as {{Lang|pl|kapuśniak}} or {{Lang|pl|kwaśnica}} in Polish, {{Lang|sk|kapustnica}} in Slovak, and {{Lang|uk|капусняк}} ({{Transliteration|uk|ukrainian|kapusniak}}) in Ukrainian. It would be {{Lang|ru|щи}} ({{Transliteration|ru|shchi}}) in Russian, however.

The same goes to Czech ({{Lang|cs|zelňačka}} or {{Lang|cs|zelná polévka}}), German ({{Lang|de|Kohlsuppe}} or {{Lang|de|Krautsuppe}}), French ({{Lang|fr|soupe aux choux}}) cuisine, Finnish ({{Lang|fi|kaalikeitto}}) and Swedish ({{Lang|sv|kålsoppa}}).

Shchi

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Shchi ({{langx|ru|щи}}) is a national dish of Russia. While commonly it is made of cabbage, dishes of the same name may be based on dock, spinach or nettle.

  • The sauerkraut variant of cabbage soup is known to Russians as "sour {{Transliteration|ru|shchi}}" ("кислые щи"), as opposed to fresh cabbage {{Transliteration|ru|shchi}}. An idiom in Russian, "{{Lang|ru|Профессор кислых щей}}" ("sour shchi professor"), is used to express an ironic or humorous attitude toward a person who makes a pretense of having considerable knowledge.{{Cite news|url=https://rus-eng-phraseology-dict.slovaronline.com/26912-%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%84%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BE%D1%80_%D0%BA%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BB%D1%8B%D1%85_%D1%89%D0%B5%D0%B9|title=ПРОФЕССОР КИСЛЫХ ЩЕЙ|newspaper=Словарь Онлайн }}

= [[Borscht#Diversification|Borscht]] as a cabbage soup =

The mid-19th-century Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language defines {{transliteration|ru|borshch}} as "a kind of {{transliteration|ru|shchi}}" with beet sour added for tartness.http://dic.academic.ru/contents.nsf/enc2p/ Tolkovy slovar zhivogo velikorusskogo yazyka by Vladimir Dal

{{Lang|pl|Kapuśniak|italic=no}}

There is a Polish cabbage soup known as {{Lang|pl|kapuśniak}},{{Cite web|url=https://www.seriouseats.com/polish-potato-kielbasa-cabbage-soup-kapusniak-recipe|title=Polish Potato, Kielbasa, and Cabbage Soup (Kapusniak) Recipe|website=Serious Eats}} where drained and chopped sauerkraut is cooked in water with chopped pork, pieces of kielbasa and a bit of salt until the meat is almost tender. Instead of meat, a ready broth is also used. Afterwards, diced potatoes and carrots are added and boiled until they are cooked. Tomato paste and spices may be added. In some regions the soup is served with added flour and butter. A lean {{Lang|pl|kapuśniak}} is cooked with roots and fungi.

{{Lang|pl|Kapuśniak}} is served hot, in some regions with sour cream and sprinkled with chopped parsley and dill.

{{Lang|lv|Skābu kāpostu zupa|italic=no}}

In most of Latvia sauerkraut soup ({{langx|lv|skābu kāpostu zupa}}) is made with sauerkraut, potatoes, carrots and groats, but in the region of Latgale only sauerkraut and bacon is used.{{cite web |title=Latgalian recipes: Sauerkraut soup |url=https://eng.lsm.lv/article/culture/food-drink/latgalian-recipes-sauerkraut-soup.a328700/ |access-date=19 August 2019 |publisher=Public Broadcasting of Latvia |date=17 August 2019}}

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Swedish cabbage soup

The Swedish cabbage soup is usually made from white cabbage, which is browned before being boiled, and seasoned with generous amounts of allspice and sometimes served with boiled meatballs.

{{cite web| title=Swedish Cabbage Soup with Turkey Meatballs – Kålsoppa med Köttbullar|url=https://feathersfins.com/recipe/swedish-cabbage-soup-with-turkey-meatballs-kalsoppa-med-kottbullar/}}

Caldo verde

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There are various soups made with vegetables that are the same species as cabbage, but come in different form, such as Caldo Verde soup, made of collard.

In popular culture

In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and its movie adaptations, the protagonist's family is so poor that one of the only foods they can afford to eat is cabbage soup.

Louis de Funès was the protagonist of the French film La Soupe aux choux (Cabbage Soup).

Catherine the Great, a Russian tsarina of German origin, initially notorious at the Russian court for her poor command of Russian, was quipped to be capable of making seven misspellings in a two-letter word:

  • a two-letter Russian word {{Lang|ru|Щи}} (in Cyrillic spelling)...
  • ...would become {{Lang|de|Schtschi}} in German.

See also

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Sources

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  • Клиновецька З. Страви й напитки на Україніі — Київ — Львів 1913 р.—С.4
  • Кулинария, Государственное издательство торговой литературы — Москва 1959 г. — С.57
  • Українські страви. К.:Державне видавництво технічної літератури УРСР. 1961. 454 с.

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