Hot Beet Soup - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 to 3 qt. soup stock or cans beef broth
1/2 c. sour cream
1 can whole beets
1 small onion
1 to 2 Tbsp. lemon juice

Preparation

Make soup stock of either beef, lamb or ham bone; strain. Grate beets coarsely; add to stock.
Cut onion in small pieces; fry lightly in butter (until soft).
Add to soup stock; bring to a boil.
Ladle off about a cupful of soup.
Allow to cool slightly. Then gradually stir partially cooled soup into sour cream.
Then pour cream mixture into the rest of soup which has been removed from heat.
(Cream will curdle if soup is too hot or if all of it is added to soup at once.)
Lemon juice may be added to soup for tartness.