In the summer heat it is so pleasant to quench your thirst with cooling kvass. This drink is healthier than sweet sparkling water, and tastes quite the same. True, in order for it to really be beneficial, you need to drink not a drink made on an industrial scale, but a home-made product.
But how to make bread kvass at home?
How to cook?
The basis for the drink is rye bread or crackers. Ideally, they should also be made on their own, so that before you make homemade bread kvass, you will have to thoroughly prepare. But the quality of the drink will be at its best, and even now there are even special kitchen appliances for preparing your own baked goods. However, you can take a good store bread. So, before making bread kvass at home, prepare crackers by slicing a loaf and drying it in the oven. Wait until the crusts are browned, then the drink will acquire a special golden hue. Ready crackers pour boiling water. Cover tightly and let it brew for about four hours. Pay attention to the right dishes: only glass or enameled will do. An aluminum bowl cannot be used, as it can easily oxidize. When the crackers are infused, a wort is obtained that needs to be filtered.
Dilute the yeast in boiled water and add to the infusion, put sugar there, a little dried mint. Cover with a cloth and leave to roam for twelve hours. After this time, foam should appear. The drink needs to be filtered, after which it can be bottled, for taste, it is recommended to put raisins on their bottom. Close the kvass tightly with corks and leave for a couple of hours, then put it in a cool place for three days. That's all. Now you have the answer to the question of how to make bread
kvass at home. Enjoy a pleasant taste without harm to health.
Options for making bread kvass at home
Try the kvass variant known as Petrovsky. You need to cook it in the same way as described above, but instead of mint and raisins you need to use grated horseradish and honey. You will need four hundred grams of crackers, two liters of water, fresh yeast, fifty grams of honey and the same amount of horseradish.
Now you know how to make bread kvass at home, and you can try a similar drink based on it. He will need cranberries. Take eight hundred grams of berries, four hundred grams of sugar, forty grams of yeast. Sort and wash the berries, mash and fill with water. Boil and strain, add sugar to the broth and bring to a boil again. Wait for cooling and dilute the yeast in the drink. Give a day for fermentation, then bottle and leave it in the cold for three days. After the specified time, cranberry kvass can be drunk. Due to the fact that it is prepared using fermentation, such a drink can be harmful to patients with ulcers, gastritis, enteritis or colitis, as well as liver diseases and gout. If you have stored it for too long, kvass can become bitter-acidic - this means that you should not use it.