What people actually ate in Soviet canteens and whether the food was so tasty

Each word has its own association. That’s how the word “dining room” for a post-Soviet person always causes tremors. However, this may be a subjective opinion. Many people were delighted with the food. And many still do. soviet They take it as a standard. Editorial "Site" It offers to plunge into those distant times and remember what was fed in the Soviet canteens.



You can find dining rooms today, too. As a rule, it is always much cheaper than cafes and restaurants. They look modern and the variety of dishes is much more, and the quality of food does not cause such concerns. Unless, of course, the cook sticks to technology cards and doesn't steal more than he can. Alas, the human factor is always present everywhere and no matter how well society lives, someone will always miss something. Perhaps you just have to accept or control the situation with very tough methods. What they didn’t do in the USSR. In such a huge country, it is difficult to keep everything under control.



But back to our canteens, or rather the Soviet ones. And remember what was the most delicious, and what is not wanted. Moreover, the recipe was approximately the same from kindergarten to the factory canteen. The same seasonal products, calorie content and appearance of dishes. For the kids, they did a little better. At the factory, each dish had to be hearty and high-calorie. Worst of all was the student canteens, but the hungry students were ready to eat even stale bread.



The greatest variety of dishes was among the first. Soups, borscht, harcho, brine, saline, shy. Always hot and full. Vegetables that were necessarily heavily chopped. Foreigners never understood how to eat the first Soviet dishes. And why do vegetables so abundantly water broth? But liquid was mandatory once a day for full nutrition. And the main highlight in the recipe of any first dish was a roast. Many still do not understand the soup without roasted in oil onions to a golden crust.



Second courses or side dishes. There was a slight decrease in diversity. Despite the fact that in the USSR they grew everything, for some reason there was no such variety of porridge in the canteens. Today in any supermarket you can choose which rice to buy or buckwheat. Then there was barley and millet. Everything else related to exquisite dishes and finding the same buckwheat or rice was impossible even during the day with fire. Sometimes you had to stand in a long line to buy a bag of buckwheat. And in the dining rooms there was no such dish, and if it happened, it was closer to some holiday. Gray sticky pasta or mashed potatoes. Here are the main second dishes of the dining table. And they must be abundantly gravy.



Meat dishes and fish. In Soviet times, there was such a joke that there was more bread in Tstolov cutlets than meat. But we must pay tribute to the meat cooked delicious and quite a lot. Goulash, schnitzel, cutlets in Kiev, stew. There were also many different types of fish. Just fried, gravy, sea and river. Salted fish, pickled - a rare delicacy, but so tasty.

A variety of food is sure to the second assumed a salad or vegetable cutting. It all depended on the season. Sauerkraut and a burglar salad in winter. Fresh cabbage, radishes, cucumbers and tomatoes - in summer. There was also a lot of conservation: low-salt cucumbers, soaked apples, green sauerkraut tomatoes. All the saliva flowed from such a variety of tastes.



The dinner ended with a drink. The tea was brewed in a huge pan and seasoned with soda for a more saturated dark color. Very rarely in the canteens you could find delicious aromatic tea. Coffee with milk was also a drink. It was often given to children at school. Whether to drink milk, or not to fall asleep in class. Kisel was of two types: natural from berries or concentrate. It was almost always delicious. And the best thing about the canteens was compote. Most often from dried fruits with dried apricots, prunes. Scented and sweet. The variety of natural juices in Soviet times could not but please and they were all in the canteens.

What is the most delicious of the Soviet dining room? What recipes do you still use in your kitchen? Write in the comments your favorite dishes.