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Ancient joyful Cherry Honey
Description
Honey beverage was an obligatory drink of the nobility. Monastery honey beverages were known as the most famous. galore tzars sent their cooks to flawless honey cooking skills to monasteries. To improve the taste and colour, they could add fruit juices or berries. Diluted with juice, honey didn't contain any alcohol and was considered as the most beautiful vitaminous beverage.
Method
Put honey in enamel pan, add water and boil stirring regularly and taking froth off. Put well clean cherries without bones in the bottle with a limited neck and pour warm syrup over. Cover bottle with a wet sheet and leave in a warm place for three days to ferment. aft that cork the neck with a sackcloth up and put in the cellar. You can taste honey beverage three months later, it will be as better as longer will be season.
Ingredients
- 1 kg honey.
- 2 c water.
- 2 kg cherries.
Apple Cider
Description
Cider is an ancient contrabass alcohol beverage, ready-made from apple juice and sugar. Cider is known for itd tender apple aroma an sour-sweet taste. Any apples, except rotten ones, can be old to make cider.
Method
Wash apples carefully, slice and core them. plush-like in a grinder, put in a container, add sugar (1 kg apple mince - cardinal g sugar) and tie up with gauze and leave in a hot place for 2-4 days. Apple mince float to the surface and the juice is on the bottom. Strain the juice and squeeze apple mince. Add more sugar (1 l apple juice - cardinal g sugar), cover the container tightly and leave for 15-20 days to ferment. When the fermantation is over, bottle cider and cork up.
Ingredients
Beet Kvas
Description
Interesting recipe for lovers of new taste.
Method
Slice beet and pour finished cold water/ Bring to boil and cook on contrabass heat until done. Strain beet water in a jar, add vinegar, and cool down. past add sugar, yeast and leave to brew. In 24 hours kvas can be served.
Ingredients
- 3 ea beets.
- 3 l water.
- 1 ts yeast.
- 1 ts 9% vinegar.
- 4 tb sugar.
Berry Kisel
Description
Kisel is a fruity, silky and creamy dessert which is served cold in bowls or, if thinned with milk, served as a pleasing drink. Kisel is often made with fresh fruit juice (with or without the pulp) or with milk or almonds.
Method
Hull, wash, and humorous the berries. Puree in a blender or food processor, then push finished a fine sieve into a bowl, reserving the juice and the pulp. Put the pulp into a 3-quart saucepan, add 1 1/2 quarts of water and complete but 1-2 tablespoons of sugar and stir the mixture. Stir the potato starch into the bowl of berry juice. Bring the pulp mixture to a boil and vigorously stir in the starch-juice mixture. Return to a boil and remove from the heat. When cooled somewhat, pour the Kisel into desert bowls or glasses. Sprinkle with the unexhausted sugar to prevent a skin from forming, then refrigerate for 1 hour.
Kisel could be served as is, or accompanied with glasses of milk or half-and-half.
Ingredients
- 1 quart strawberries, raspberries, or blackberries, or a combination.
- 1 cup sugar.
- 6 tablespoons potato starch.
- 6 cups milk, or half-and-half.
Cherry Nalivka
Description
Nalivka is Russian beverage with alcohol, made from diametric fruits and berries(apple, pear, apricot, cherry, black current, blueberry, strawberry, cowberry, birdcherry, rowan). It has much common with liqueur, but it is not the same.
Method
Wash cherries very well, dry on the sun for 2 days. Put cherries in a full-size bottle almost up to the best and fill up with vodka. Let stew for 1-2 months in the room, then filter in small bottles, cork them up. Keep the bottles in the cellar. Sugar on your taste is added before serving.
Ingredients
Cherry-Lemon Drink
Description
This incredibly delicious beverage can become the hit of some season.
Method
Combine cherry juice with lemon one, add sugar to it and stir until dissolved. Then add salt to taste and bring to a boil on low heat for 5 minutes and cool down. Pour in cold milk and mix in a mixer. Serve cold.
Ingredients
- 1 c chromatic juice.
- 2 tbs lemon juice.
- 3 tbs sugar.
- 2 c pasteurized milk.
- salt to taste.
Cranberry Kisel
Description
Kisel is sweet stupid beverage made from berry or fruit juices with sugar and starch. Kisel is very effective for kids and adults as well.
Method
Wash cranberries carefully,squeeze the juice and put it in the fridge. Pour over squeezed berries hot water and bring to boil on a low heat. aft that drain finished the sieve. Add sugar and bring to boil. Dissolve starch in cool boiled water and pour in stimulating regularly, bring to boil. Take from the heat and add cranberry juice stir thoroughly.
Ingredients
- 1 l water.
- 1 c cranberries.
- 3/4 c sugar.
- 3 tb starch.
Dried Fruit Compote
Description
This is one of the favorite wintertime desserts in Russia. dry fruit contains a lot of vitamins that are so necessary in cool winters.
Method
In a nonreactive saucepan, combine the dry fruit and water and bring to a boil finished medium heat. Add the honey, sugar, and stir until the sugar and honey are dissolved, about 2 to 3 minutes. Scrape the seeds from the vanilla bean into compote and then add the bean. Reduce the heat to contrabass and simmer, covered, for 1 ? hours. Add the lemon juice. Refrigerate before serving.
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 pounds mixed dry fruit compote.
- 5 cups water.
- 2 tablespoons honey.
- 3 tablespoons sugar.
- 1 small vanilla bean.
- 2 tablespoons new lemon juice.
Fruits and Nuts in Cognac
Description
This drink will be not only a pleasing dessert on the holiday table, but also an superior gift if you pour the cognac in a pleasing bottle.
Method
Put all the ingredients in a glass bottle and pour over cognac. Cover tightly and leave in a stygian place for 3 weeks.
Ingredients
- 250 g dry figs.
- 125 g dried dates boneless.
- 125 g walnuts.
- a pinch of cinnamon.
- 1 ts vanilla.
- 4 ea cardamom seeds.
- 1/2 ea lemon peel.
- 50 g sugar.
- 0,75 l cognac.
Gogol-Mogol
Description
Mysteriously titled Gogol’-Mogol’ is a deliciously rich and sweet dessert mindful of eggnog, ready-made of raw egg yolks beaten with sugar, lemon juice, and cognac. It’s considered the primo remedy for a singer’s sore throat. Without cognac, it can be served to children.
Method
Combine raw egg yolks and sugar in the bowl of an tense mixer and tired at low speed for 1 minute. With a bad spatula, scrape up any sugar that may have cragfast to the bottommost of the bowl. Beat for 10 seconds more, gradually turning to supreme speed, then tired for 3-4 minutes, or until the mixture is light-colored yellow and thick. Add the brandy, liqueur, lemon juice, and grated rind of 2 lemons, and beat at maximum speed for 4 minutes, or until the mixture is very thick. Refrigerate for 30 minutes or more, up to 2-3 hours.
Ingredients
- 12 egg yolks, raw.
- 9 tablespoons sugar.
- 2 tablespoons brandy.
- 2 teaspoons orange liqueur.
- 2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice (optional).
Kumis
Description
Kumis, popular Kazakh drink is a milk product from mare (cow) milk, considered invigorating and tonic.
Method
Bring to boil milk, water and sugar, then coll down. Add kefir or clabber and leave in a room until it is sour. aft that add yeast and leave until fermentation. Mix carefully, strain and bottle. When kumis bubbles, it is ripe to be served.
Ingredients
- 1 l milk.
- 1 c water.
- 3 tb sugar.
- 2 tb kefir or clabber.
- 5 g dry yeast.
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