How to make kvass at home

Even in the Old Russian times it was customary to cook kvass from various cereals, such as oats, wheat or rye. At its manufacturing various vegetable additives, for example, grasses, berries or vegetables were used. It differed not only in its simplicity of preparation, but also in the presence of a large number of useful properties that make up its composition.

At that time, each family had its own recipe for cooking this drink. These recipes have survived to this day and are widely used by chefs from different countries. In this article we will look at how to make kvass at home.

To start with, it should be noted that both beer and kvass have the same ingredients, but they differ in the way they are cooked. So the beer is obtained as a result of alcoholic fermentation, and the fermentation of acidic, during which there are lactic, acetic, formic and carbonic acids, and also alcohol, which gives the drink a special flavor and aroma.

The preparation of domestic kvass assumes the presence of such ingredients: one kilogram of rye breadcrumbs, ten liters of water, twenty-five grams of yeast and mint, one glass of sugar, fifty grams of raisins.

The rusks are put in a saucepan, poured with boiling water and left for four hours. The resulting infusion is filtered, put into it yeast, mint and sugar, cover with a towel and leave for six hours for fermentation. When foam appears, kvass is filtered and bottled, adding a little raisins, and then they are placed in a cold place for three days.

In the same way, you can cook Petrovsky kvass. However, instead of mint in it put honey (fifty grams) and grated horseradish (fifty grams).

Consider how to make kvass home from apples and carrots. To do this, you need to have: ten medium-sized apples, three carrots, half a glass of sugar, five liters of water, one spoonful of yeast and dry chamomile.

Apples should be washed, and, without cleaning, cut into slices. Carrots are cleaned, rubbed on a coarse grater and mixed with apples. To the resulting mass, add water, in which yeast and sugar are pre-bred, all mixed and left for one day for fermentation. After a while, kvass is rearranged to a cold place for two days, then it is filtered, and the remaining cake is used to make a new beverage.

Another recipe for how to make kvass from oats.

Ingredients: one glass of oats, four tablespoons of sugar, fifty grams of raisins.

Oats are well washed and transferred to a three-liter bottle, then add sugar and raisins, previously rinsed with water. All this is poured in cold water (boiled), the jar is covered with gauze and put for four days in a well-lit place, and after a time it should be filtered. It should be noted that the remaining oats can be used up to four times, each time adding sugar one spoon less.

Consider how to make kvass home from rice. To do this, it is necessary: one hundred grams of boiled rice, one and a half liters of water, one spoonful of raisins, one hundred grams of sugar, a pinch of dry yeast.

Rice is well washed, boiled in salted water, tilted on a sieve and chilled. Add to it yeast, raisins and a spoonful of sugar, put everything in a towel, wrap and leave for one hour. In the remaining sugar add water and pour it with rice, after which everything is covered with a film and left for four days. At the time when the film is formed on kvass, the drink will be completely ready for use, it will only drain it and add raisins.

So, before you make kvass at home, you need to pick up your favorite recipe and purchase all the necessary ingredients. Preparing this drink is not difficult. It is able not only to remove thirst, but also to give special taste to other dishes, where it is used as one of the ingredients.