Kvass saved everyone. Have you tried real kvass? No, not purchased, but home? No soda can be compared with this magical drink. The recipe for kvass at home is my gift for you. But in the beginning, not much about kvass.
From far away in Russia they like kvass very much. More than a thousand years, he is a national drink and at the same time a meal, remember the favorite okroshka. In the olden days with kvass, many dishes were cooked: botvinyu, turkey, which are now a curiosity for us. Kvass was sweet and sour, berry, fruity, honey. How to get kvass? Through fermentation and the insistence of bread, sugar, water, yeast and malt. If you drink kvass, you are not afraid of beriberi, you will not tire. And this is a great bactericidal agent. It was not for nothing that in the old days it was given in military hospitals. Kvass can be cooked in different ways. The base remains unchanged, plus various additives: lemon, raisins, spicy herbs that give the opportunity to taste the taste of this wonderful drink. It is best to do it yourself.
I offer simple recipes of kvass at home.
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Bread kvass Honey kvass Video how to make kvass at homeBread kvass
It will take:
- one brick of rye bread;
- three liters of water;
- one glass of sugar;
- twenty grams of yeast;
- two tablespoons of raisins.
Preparation:
- rye bread to cut, dry in the oven
- put in a saucepan, pour boiling water, let cool
- strain through gauze
- add sugar, yeast, mix
- leave for 10 hours
- pour kvass into bottles
- put raisins
- close tightly
- put in the refrigerator.
After 2 days the drink is ready.
I hope you understand that the drink is bottled in two and a half liter bottles and for each bottle one tablespoon of raisins.
Honey kvass
It will take:
- 5 liters of water
- 400 grams of honey
- 1 lemon
- 400 grams of raisins
- 8 grams of yeast
- 1 tablespoon of rye flour
To prepare honey kvass on this recipe from Russian cuisine, add the lemon in honey, cut into thin circles, and the raisins are poured 4 liters of cold boiled water, in which yeast and flour are mixed. Well, and after a day, pour 1 liter of boiled water. And when the raisins and lemon float to the surface of the water, the liquid is filtered through a sieve. We pour kvass on bottles, close them, while putting 1-2 raisins in bottles, and store it in a cool place. Well, after 2-3 days, honey kvass is ready for use.
Preparing kvass at home requires great skill. Unfortunately, the great and richest experience of the Slavic people was not thoroughly studied, and the art of home-brewing kvass gradually began to be forgotten. We only know individual records of recipes and descriptions in old books and manuals. The first mention of kvass was found in 988. When Kiev was baptized, Vladimir ordered all the food and drinks to be distributed, honey was served in barrels and bread kvass from drinks.
But, and if you want to read about cooking kvass, then read the work published in 1898 by the doctor LI Simonov. He wrote that the brewing of kvass in our country is flourishing as well as bakery. Everyone cooks it, men and merchants, boyars, in monasteries and in soldiers' barracks, in hospitals and hospitals. And in cities there are kvosovarni, where they cook kvass for sale. Doctors consider kvass a useful drink, not only for patients, but also for healthy ones.
Kvass can be eaten with fish, I love it so much, I advise you. I will be very happy if these recipes become your applications, in your home kitchen. And you with such kvass will please your family and guests. I know that those readers who love kvass will appreciate these recipes. And it will be great if they ask you to give them the same recipe, then this kvass will be known to more people. So, more people will rejoice, and drink and treat guests.
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