Ukrainian borsch / original version

Ingredients
Lard (pork fat), 10, 77 beets, cabbage 60, 50 potatoes, carrots 16, parsley 7, 17 onions, garlic 1.5, tomato puree 20, 3 flour, sugar 5, vinegar 3% 8, sour cream 15, bay leaves, pepper, herbs.

Cooking method
Borscht is better to cook meat broth. For the broth boil beef with bone when the water boils to shoot. In the broth to put roots. Cook vegetables for borscht: clean the beets, carrots, potatoes, onions, cabbage. Cut the beets into strips, put in a pan with the fat.

Add vinegar to beet has not changed color in fire, simmer until soft

The rest of the vegetables and cut into strips. Extinguish the onion and carrot, they add tomato paste. All vegetables are put in a meat broth and cook over very low heat until tender, add salt, bay leaf.
5-10 minutes before the end of cooking bacon rubbed with garlic and herbs and add to the soup. Chop the fresh tomatoes, chop the greens.

When applying to the plate to put a piece of meat, herbs and fresh tomatoes, sour cream.