Somma (Summer) Or Krut (Weed) Borscht - cooking recipe

Ingredients

10 cups water
3 pieces of farmer sausage, 6 inch pieces (or more)
1/2 cup chopped green onion top
2 cups chopped fresh sorrel
1/3 cup fresh dill sprig
3 -4 medium potatoes, diced
3 sprigs parsley
1 bay leaf
8 peppercorns
salt
sour cream

Preparation

To the water in a large soup pot, add the farmer sausage and cook for about 1 hour: this makes your soup stock.
Remove the pieces of sausage and let cool, then remove the casing and cut up into bit size pieces.
Add potatoes, onion greens, dill green, parsley, sorrel, bay leaf and peppercorns (in a spice bag or container) to the stock.
Cook this until potatoes are done.
Add the farmer sausage pieces back into the soup.
Add salt to taste.
Serve hot with heaping tablespoon of sour cream in each serving.
Good served with fresh homemade brown bread.
The farmer sausage can be substituted with a smoked ham hock.