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This winter we eat a lot of what the aid people bring. Big tins of beef, flour in white sacks with letters, beans, tomato paste in a tin. The people from the United Nations are in the city since October, and at the first week everybody laughed about the blue helmets, "kök kaska". Then somebody's aunt made a soup from the aid, and now the soup has the same name.

Ingredients (6 people):

• 1 tin beef (the big one) or 400g any beef
• 2 cups flour for noodles, water, salt
• 1 tin beans
• 2 spoons tomato paste
• 2 onions
• potato if you have
• black pepper, dried tarragon from the cupboard

Instructions: Fry onion, add tomato paste, add the beef from the tin with the jelly. Water. Add potato. Make the noodles with flour, roll thin, cut in squares, throw into the boiling soup. At the end beans. Taste it. It needs more salt and more pepper, always.

It is not good food, but it is warm and everybody's grandmother remembers this winter. My nephew who is 8 asks for kök kaska on his birthday. This is how history becomes a recipe.