Kvass – soft drink, popular in Russia, on its basis cook remarkable cold soup – okroshka. Recipes for kvass great variety, in each region he is trained in own way.
One of recipes for tasty white okroshechny kvass means use as ferment of the usual grain test. It is convenient – if to get the test more, then it is possible "to kill two hares at once" − to bake bread and to put kvass.
On 5 liters of drink the floor of kilogram of the test will be required. He is brought from 2.5-3 glasses of flour, 1 glass of cold boiled water, by 6-7 g pressed or 0.5 teaspoons of a yeast powder. They are parted in water, pour out this mix in flour, knead dough and put it for 1-2 hours in heat that turned sour.
Boil 4 liters of water, cool it to 35-45 °C, put in it sugar 0.5 glasses, the turned sour dough and maintain in the warm place. For maturing of kvass there will be enough two days. Upon termination of fermentation drink, ready-to-serve turns out sharp, moderately sour, white color.
It is possible to paint over kvass, to make it saturated brown color the burned-through sugar or slightly burned grain crusts (crackers). Sugar is filled on the dry heated frying pan and melted till brown color. Hot syrup is poured out in kvass. Kvass is spilled on bottles, corked and put in the fridge. Drink perfectly satisfies thirst, on its basis tasty okroshka turns out.