Original Source: The Domostroi

Cabbage or greens, and bread crumbs cut small, and washed well, and boil and steam well in humbles days meat, or ham, or lard from ham, add cream and steam more, on fast days add juice instead or some other fat (soup fat), and steam well with salt or with sauerkraut soup, cook kasha with lard butter, or herring kasha, or with juice.