shchin.

1824 J. D. Cochrane Narr. Pedestrian Journey through Russia iv. 105 I never entered a cottage, but shtshee (a cabbage soup), with meat, milk and bread, were..placed before me unasked.

1833 R. Pinkerton Russia 71 A favourite and common dish among them is a kind of broth, called tschee.

1855 Englishwoman in Russia 46 We get plenty of black bread and salt, and very often stchie.

1901 Daily Chron. 14 June 3/4 The delicious and universal cabbage soup is not in English letters Stchie,..but—as nearly as maybe—Shtchi.

1904 Daily News 14 Apr. 5/3 We won Poltava on stchi (cabbage soup), and beat Napoleon with kasha (buckwheat gruel).

1904 Westm. Gaz. 21 Apr. 7/1 The dish of shtchee—fermented cabbage and meat—with vodka, he greatly enjoyed.

1905 Westm. Gaz. 21 Jan. 16/1 That extraordinary mixture of pickled cabbage, meat broth, and about a hundred other ingredients which goes by the name of shtshi.

1906 Daily Chron. 28 Aug. 3/1 The fare is disgusting, the ‘stchee’ uneatable.

1941 A. L. Simon Conc. Encycl. Gastron. III. 18/2 The most popular form of cabbage soup in France is called Garbure; the Russian edition of it is known as Stschi.

1958 W. Bickel tr. R. Hering Dict. Classical & Mod. Cookery 113 Schtschi, Russian Cabbage Soup.

1971 Times 9 Aug. 5/8 [Soup made from wild sorrel] is a welcome change in the summer and is called green schchi (schchi being the traditional cabbage soup).

1973 R. Martin Internat. Dict. Food & Cooking 259/2 Shchi, (Russian), green vegetable soup of meat bouillon and cabbage.

1977 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 14 Apr. 10/4 In exchange for a few dissident intellectuals the Ibanskians import from America tons of shchi, the Russian national dish of cabbage soup.