Sour potato pieces, mom's style

Ingredients for 4 servings:

• 1 small onion(s)
• 4 medium-sized carrots
• 1 small piece(s) of celery
• 8 m.-sized potatoes
• 65 g fat or bacon
• 1 ½ liters vegetable broth, preferably homemade
• 1 bay leaf
• 5 peppercorns
• 40 g cornstarch
• 10 small gherkins
• 200 g meat sausage, hunting sausage or Kasseler
• some cucumber water
• salt and pepper

Instructions

Working time approx. 20 minutes; Cooking/baking time approx. 20 minutes; Total time approx. 40 minutes

a GDR recipe

Peel and wash the onion. Peel and dice the carrots, celery, and potatoes. Heat the fat or bacon in a saucepan and briefly sauté the potatoes and root vegetables. Pour in the vegetable stock, add the bay leaf, peppercorns, and onion, and simmer for 15 minutes. Toward the end of the cooking time, mix the cornstarch with cold water and slice the pickled cucumbers. Add both to the soup and bring to a boil; the soup should thicken. Remove the bay leaf, pepper, and onion. Dice the sausage or smoked pork, fry briefly in a pan, and then add to the pan. Season the pickled potato pieces with the pickle juice, salt, and pepper to taste.