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cold borscht

A Lithuanian cold summer beet soup also found in Belarusian, Latvian, Polish, and Ukrainian cuisines, historically tied to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

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It is historically associated with the culinary traditions of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the later Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, where cold sour soups were common across the entire social strata, from the nobility to the peasants. Svekolnik is a related cold beet soup in Russian cuisine, commonly made with bread kvass or beetroot kvass.

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