Home-made kvass can be made from bread, from rye flour. For the first option of drink it is possible to use the bread remains, having added to them yeast, water, sugar. The second recipe – bezdrozhzhevy drink on ferment.
Home-made kvass – completely natural product prepared with love diligent hands of the hostess. Besides this drink costs cheaper than a store analog. One more indisputable argument making home-made kvass – a great way of use of surplus of bread.
Drink from a rye bread
Ingredients:
- 400 g of a rye bread; • 100 g of sugar; • 10 g of a fresh yeast; • 5 liters of water; • a little изюмин. Don't throw out the remains of black bread, from it it is possible to make great drink. It is the best of all to use "Borodino", but also other rye grades will approach. If it is used "Borodino", then at first it is necessary to clean off from it a crust on which there are coriander seeds.
Now bread needs to be cut on slices 1 centimeter thick and to dry it in an oven or in a dry frying pan, stirring slowly. In the latter case width of slices small – 1.5-2 cm. Croutons have to be reddened slightly. Further the prepared bread is filled in with five liters of the boiled water cooled up to 40 °. Here it is poured sugar and the yeast divorced in 100 grams of water joins. Everything carefully mixes up. It is important not to cook kvass in aluminum ware, the glass or enameled pan will approach only. After all necessary ingredients are added, cover a pan and put to wander to the warm place for 2 days. After this time drink is filtered. Spill on 1-2-liter bottles, put in everyone on 3-6 изюмин and remove in the fridge. In 12 hours, kvass can be tasted.
Kvass from rye flour without yeast
Some fans of national drink are frightened off by a brazhny smell which accompanies the home-made kvass made on yeast. Therefore it is possible to use the ancient recipe of kvass from rye flour in which this ingredient is absent. That to prepare it, it is necessary to make ferment at first. The following ingredients will be necessary for it: • 200 g of rye flour; • 2 tablespoons of sugar; • 400 g of cold boiled water; All components mix up and weight is put for 2 days to the warm place for fermentation. Ferment is ready. Now it is possible to cook from it rye kvass. After this time weight is mixed, pour 2 more tablespoons of sugar and as much rye flour. Everything mixes properly up and filled in with three liters of the boiled water cooled up to 40 °. Solution is put to the warm place. In 3 days, kvass from rye flour is ready. From it carefully merge liquid, cool it and drink the refreshing drink. The density isn't poured out – it will be ferment for the following kvass. She is fed up, having added on the 2nd tablespoons of rye flour and sugar again, add in three liters of water. Thanks to the ferment it is possible to do home-made drink many times, filling up in it sugar, flour and adding 3 liters of water.