Beetroot soup is not only a fabulous colour but delicious too.

Anyway, they taste much the same, and last year beetroot soup was added to the menu.

They had cold beetroot soup that the Count referred to asborscht, which they greatly enjoyed.

Zupa buraczkowa - Red beetroot soup with potatoes.

Presently the housekeeper brought in some beetroot soup and dark bread, and after the priest had said a long grace, they ate.

That is why at first sight it looks like a different kind of beetroot soup, but in reality it is always the same borsch.

The postcard for Latvia contained the word "Borsch"(beetroot soup) at the end.

"I hope they like beetroot soup.'

A traditional Christmas meal in Poland includes herring and borscht (beetroot soup) with uszka (ravioli).

On Christmas they ate typical Polish dishes like beetroot soup and they made a Christmas tree of snow.

The beetroot soup is borscht at its best, a gorgeous ruby red, suffused with the flavors of beets, vodka, dill and creme fraiche.

Hugh's bright pink Beetroot soup with feta or a humble Swede soup also balances out the spiralling cost per meal.

That hardy Russian favourite, beetroot soup (barszcz), is an ever-present delicacy, while forest mushrooms (grzyby) make a mouth-watering side dish.

But stick with the basics at 'The Hearth': barszcz czwerwony (beetroot soup) and pierogi (dumplings stuffed with meat or cheese and potatoes).

And he goes on, about beetroot soup and lumps of bread made from flour, straw and sawdust, and the children look at the cherries and find them loathsome.

Other versions are richer and include meat and cut vegetables of various kinds, with beetroot not necessarily dominating (though this soup is not always called barszcz, but rather beetroot soup).

The family had all finished their plain supper of beetroot soup and meatballs, Jasio Koskiewicz was seated snoring by the fire, Helena was sewing, and the other children were playing.

Pretty open-air săh lah, decorated with flowers and dappled with sunlight, host a range of organic and macro-biotic dishes, such as Yunnanese tofu cheese, beetroot soup and herbal coffees.

Here you get fast-food bliny (crepes), chicken Kiev and borscht (beetroot soup) - all as far from the real thing as McDonald's apple pie, but a fascinating comment on post-Soviet Russia.

Mr Vieslav's top tip The milk bar at Centralny (Central Square) is the only one left in the city that's worth its salt - dumplings served with beetroot soup, straight from the lady's ladle - £1.

Although the eye-poppingly purple beetroot soup is slurped across Eastern Europe - filling tummies in Poland, Russia, Lithuania and beyond - itʼs in Ukraine that youʼll find the greatest glut of recipes, which differ from Kiev to Lviv to Odessa.