There are other admirable soups of Russian invention, one, Selianka, a fish soup made from the sterlet and sturgeon, being much liked when a taste for it has been acquired.
Fresh caviar is in perfection there, as also thesterlet or young sturgeon; the latter is caught in the Danube, and is a most dainty and much prized fish.
Nevertheless I'll give thee my beloved sturgeon; sit upon him and go thy way, and my swift runner the long-nosed sterlet shall swim before thee to show the way.
The brother and sister then said farewell, the Tsarevich Ivan sat him on the sturgeon and sped away, and the sterlet went on before to show the way.
There was the golden sterlet of the Sheksna, the pheasant, nursling of the Caucasian forests, and strawberries, that great rarity in our north in the month of February.
The bones are of a very glutinous nature, and can be easily masticated, while the taste of a sterlet is something between that of a barbel and a perch, the muddy flavour of the former predominating.
Wait until we show you zhiryokha [sterlet grilled in its own fat] and ukha [soup] as prepared by the fishermen of the Volga.
I remember one particularly delicious concoction was composed of fresh sterlet and sour cabbage, with white grapes on top, baked to a brown crispness.
We followed their proceedings with deep interest, being curious to learn the secret of the genuine "amber sterlet soup.
While the soup was boiling and more sterlet were being grilled in their own fat, as a second course, our men pitched our tent and ran up our flag, and the butler set the table on our big rug.
It was lucky that we had purchased fish at our breakfast-place, as no sterlet had been caught at this camp.
The sterlet is expensive in regions where the cook-book flourishes, and the other fish are merely a cheat of town economy.
We made acquaintance with some of his democratic manners during a truly unique picnic, arranged by our charming hosts expressly to convince us that the famous sterlet merited its reputation.
Fortunately, the catch ofsterlet at this stand had been good.
We understood the despair of Parisian gourmets and cooks, and we confirmed the verdict, provisionally announced at breakfast, that the sterlet is the king of all fish.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sterlet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
