Why kvass from a barrel is so attractive

In the USSR, there was no such abundance of soft drinks as today, but all Soviet They were all natural and we enjoyed drinking them all.





"Site" It invites readers to recall those days when Nescafe and Coca-Cola have not yet appeared on sale, and the most delicious drink was water with syrup for 3 cents.





Best drinks.

1. Drinking coffee
   Work and school cafeterias served a so-called coffee drink, or "coffee with milk." Of the coffee there, except for the name, remained little. Poured this miracle directly from a bucket or can. And, to be honest, few people liked this drink.
   
   
   
2. Tea in glasses
   The tea in faceted glasses was very sweet, sometimes with a slight citrus flavor due to the orange peels that were added to it.
   
   
   
3. lemonade
   They say that the recipe for lemonade in Russia brought Peter the Great. The new drink fell to taste, and it, despite the fact that it was not cheap, began to cook in noble and merchant families. As we see in literary works, lemonade was not uncommon in Russia. He is mentioned in the works of Lermontov, Turgenev, Ostrovsky, Kuprin, Nabokov.
   
   
   
   
   
   Many of us still remember. Soviet-era drinks And the taste of that lemonade, which was prepared only from natural products without any chemical additives. The average price of the drink was 15 cents, and the shelf life was 7 days! Not like now - 1 year...
   
   
   
   
4. "Buratino."
   The most famous Soviet lemonade. The childhood of almost every person born in the Soviet Union is associated with Buratino. It was prepared very simply: water, sugar, lemons and oranges. It's all natural, so it's probably delicious. These days, dyes and flavors are added to Buratino.
   
   
   
5. Citro.
   There is a version that the drink "Citro" came to Russia after the war of 1812 and that its name comes from the word citron - "lemon". In the USSR, the drink became popular due to the rumor that the real "Citro" is served only in closed special buffets and in the Bolshoi Theater.
   
   
   
6. "Tarhun"
   In 1887, the history of domestic lemonade was replenished with a new page. Tiflis pharmacist Mitrofan Lagidze invented the drink "Tarkhun", which included the Caucasian tarragon, better known as tarkhun. 63437
   
   
   
   Before the First World War, Lagidze received gold medals at international exhibitions for his water. In 1927, the Lagidze Waters plant was built in Tbilisi, and Mitrofan Varlamovich himself was appointed its director.
   
   It is believed that it was Lagidze sodas that stood on the table during the Yalta conference. The drink was so popular that Churchill described its taste in his memoirs, and Roosevelt took 2,000 bottles with him.
   
   
   
   
   
   In mass sale in the USSR "Tarkhun" first entered in 1981. The experimental batch was sold on the territory of the Main Botanical Garden of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in standard bottles with a capacity of 0.33 liters.
   
   
7. Soda from the machine
   On April 16, 1932, the newspaper “Evening Moscow” wrote: “An employee of the Leningrad plant “Vienna” Agroshkin invented an interesting apparatus. In each store, through this device, you can establish the production of carbonated water. The first saturator ... is ready and installed in the Smolny dining room.
   
   
   
   Later machines began to appear in Moscow, and then throughout the Union. Simple carbonated water cost one penny, carbonated water with syrup sold for three pennies. The cups were reusable, they were simply rinsed under a stream of water.
   
   
   
   
   
8. Kvass from the barrel
   In summer, kvass barrels stood in all residential areas, near factories and shops.
   
   
   
   The saleswomen poured kvass into glasses and glasses with a pen. And of course, I remember going there with an enameled canon to stock up on a drink for the future.
   
   
   
   
   
9. Bottled juice
   In all Soviet deli, there were departments of Soki-Water, where you could skip a glass of your favorite juice from special inverted cones with a faucet. And there was always a glass of salt and a teaspoon for tomato juice. The cost of pouring juices ranged from 8 to 20 kopecks per glass. The cheapest - birch - cost 8 kopecks. That's what we used to drink as kids. Clean, transparent, slightly sweet, with a slight sourness, it perfectly quenched thirst.
   
   
   
   
   
10. Milk in triangular bags
    In addition to bottles, milk was sold in triangular bags with a capacity of half a liter. They were convenient to put on the table, and it was convenient to drink directly from the bags, cutting off the corner. The boy's empty triangular bags were not thrown away. They were laid on the floor and slapped their feet with all their might – with a successful blow, a rather loud cotton occurred, which spread throughout the school and frightened the girls.
    
    
    
    
    
11. Kisel briquette
    In the USSR, jelly was considered the most useful drink. It was served in all children's institutions, in workers, student and army canteens. They cooked it, of course, not according to old grandmother’s recipes, but from dry jelly briquettes. Not all children liked a warm viscous drink, but many dry jelly served as an affordable treat. You steal the briquette from the kitchen pencil box and secretly chew on it! Anyone who says he didn’t do that is afraid to admit it!
    
    
    
    

Compote from dried fruits according to GOST, like the one cooked in Soviet canteens, can be easily prepared at home.





The ingredients

• 2 l of water
• 120g sugar
• 3/4 tbsp dried apples
• pinch
• prune
• raisin
• 2 g of citric acid (optional)

Preparation

1. Bring the water to a boil and pour sugar into it.
2. Reduce the fire, add dried apples and cook for 10 minutes.
3. Add prunes and dried apricots, cook for another 5 minutes.
4. Add prunes and boil for 10 minutes.
5. Turn it off, cover it and leave it to stand until it's completely cooled.
6. According to technology, citric acid was added to the compote after it was already cooked, but I like it without it. Drink delicious and healthy compotes instead of chemical lemonades and be healthy!

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