Soviet Cooking

Almost forgotten recipes from past time
Rare Soviet cookbook published 1955 in the USSR

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Drinks from wild-growing greens

For the preparation of herbal beverage fits any grass, it has a pleasant taste and aroma. Included in the grassy teas fruit, especially citrus fruits, obtained extremely helpful, pleasant drink. They tone up your body, quench thirst, increase vitality. They are natural, and this is their great superiority in relation to the store-bought canned drinks.

Clover with cinnamon and ginger 

Ingredients
100g clover heads, 2 tbs. sugar, cinnamon, ginger to taste (pinch), 0.5 liters of water.
The heads of clover, ginger, cinnamon, stir and pour boiling water. Boil for 10 minutes over very low heat. Cool and add sugar. Give the drink a brew for 2 hours. Drink chilled.

Clover with honey and currant juice

Ingredients
200g clover heads, sugar, honey, allspice, currant juice, 1 liter of water
Very rich drink is obtained from red clover honey and currant juice.
In 1 liter of boiled 200g clover 3-5 minutes. Add sugar, honey, cloves, wrap and let stand for 2 hours. Then strain and add currant juice. All supplements do on your own taste. Currant should not get involved in large doses, it can kill the flavor and taste of the other ingredients.

Cowberry water

Ingredients
Cowberry 150g, sugar 100g, 1 liter of water.
Clean berry cowberries mash and squeeze the juice. Husks pour water and boiled for 5-7 minutes, then cooled, filtered, and added sugar pressed juice. Drink chilled.

Kvass with lemon and raisins
Ingredients
700 g of rye bread, 6 liters of water, 300 g of sugar, 40 g raisins, 1 hour. L. citric acid or juice of ½ lemon, 5 g of yeast, diluted in half a glass of warm water with 1 tablespoon flour and 1 teaspoon sugar.

Rye bread cut into small pieces and dry in oven. Pour over bread, hot water, mix well. Cool the wort to a temperature of fresh milk and add yeast and leave for 12 hours.
Thereafter, the liquid drain and add sugar, raisins and lemon (available citric acid). Mix and leave for another 12 hours.
Then pour it into bottles, cork tightly and put into a cold place. Kvass will be ready in a day.

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