shchav
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Noun edit
shchav (uncountable)
- Alternative form of schav
- 1921, The American Hebrew & Jewish Messenger:
- They picked sour “shchav,” hunted for mushrooms and searched for possibly edible roots to supplement the barley-water of the general soup kitchen.
- 1996, Goldie Szachter Kalib, The Last Selection: A Child's Journey Through the Holocaust, page 57:
- We often picked shchav, little green leaves that were smaller and lighter in color than spinach, which Mother would later cook into a borscht.
- 2000, Harry Altman, Memoirs of a Stormy Life:
- He took us into the field and taught us which grass was edible: clover, wild shchav, and mint.
- 2010, Belle Millo, Voices of Winnipeg Holocaust Survivors, page 189:
- Among my early recollections are going past a mill to the meadow with Olga to pick shchav (sorrel) for borscht […]