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schav
[ shahv, shchahv ]
noun
Jewish or Eastern European Cooking.
- a cold soup of sorrel to which chopped egg, sour cream, lemon juice, and chopped scallions are sometimes added.
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of schav1
< Yiddish shtshav sorrel, soup made with sorrel < Polish szczaw, akin to Czech Å¡³Ùʾ²¹±¹±ð±ô, Serbo-Croatian Å¡³Ùà ±¹±ð±ôÂá, Russian ²õ³ó³¦³ó²¹±¹Ã©±ôʾ sorrel
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I noticed a dozen or so jars of something called schav lined up against a wall in the Jewish food section.
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“You don’t know what schav is? You eat it with a cold boiled potato and it’s delicious!â€
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Next in line will be sorrel in May, just in time to make schav for chilled-soup season.
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Sorrel, another edible weed growing wild around the farm later in the season, is popular among Eastern European Jews who prepare schav, a cold sorrel soup for hot weather.
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