Borscht

Borscht is a meat stock and vegetable soup, generally thought to be from Eastern Europe and Northern Asia, but has been known in many cultures, for centuries. It often features root vegetables that can be eaten over the winter, from the previous summer harvest:

Potatoes, onions, tomatoes, carrots, cabbage and beets are common ingredients added to beef, though Central Plains Mennonites skip the beets and carrots.

Saturday borscht at KMRS features beets, as you wish and present recipes have been used continuously at this sale since the 1960s.

This beef and vegetable soup is served at Feeding the Multitude in Cottonwood Court.

When we Mennonites adopted the word borsch into our Low German language, we added a "t" and capitalized the word. Borscht became a Low German noun. We adopted the Borscht in which the main ingredient is cabbage — not beets...