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Sorrel soup is a soup made from water or broth sorrel leaves and salt. Other possible ingredients are egg yolks or whole eggs (hard boiled or scrambled) potatoes carrots parsley root and rice. It can be served hot or cold and is usually garnished with sour cream. It is known in Russian Polish Ukrainian Lithuanian Latvian and Eastern European Jewish cuisines. Its other English names spelled variously schavel shchav shav or shtshav are from the Proto-Slavic ščаvь for sorrel.