Shop or home? Ask any person if he drank bread kvass? And for sure you will get an affirmative answer. But after the question: “How to make bread kvass at home?” - Even the most exemplary mistress will think. And there are options. It’s easier for us to buy some kind of expensive drink with an overseas name and a suspicious composition. Maybe it's better to try to make homemade bread kvass yourself , the recipe for which is simple and quick to execute. Kvass is useful to literally everyone: those who have weakened immunity, and those who have gastritis and low acidity, and even those who have a heart condition.
The advantages of bread kvass
Today there are many recipes for making kvass. But homemade bread kvass is especially useful, the recipe of which does not include the use of yeast. In Russia, bread kvass was drunk both in the tsar's chambers and in the huts of ordinary peasants, and during fasting kvass, along with black bread and onions, was the main source of vitamins. Kvass quenched thirst, energized and restored strength. Patients in hospitals and infirmaries were given kvass as a medicine, because even then doctors knew about such beneficial properties of this drink as improving digestion and cleansing the body of germs. Today, scientists only confirm that home-made kvass worsens the conditions for the propagation of harmful bacteria, tones the general condition of the body, normalizes cardiac activity and the digestive system.
The advantages of bread kvass:
- used in the treatment of diseases of the nervous system, to improve well-being and mood, with hypertension, diseases of the cardiovascular system;
- increases male strength, strengthens teeth, heals the liver and eyes, is used in diets for weight loss;
- if a person suffers from gastritis and has a low acidity, doctors recommend that he use homemade bread kvass before eating.
The useful properties of kvass are indisputable, but you should not abuse it if there are such chronic diseases as colitis, ulcers, high acidity, and liver diseases. To reduce the acidity of kvass, honey is added to it to taste.
Simple rules
You can make kvass from rye bread , following the simple rules:
1. Take only rye bread.
2. Use only cooled boiled water.
3. Store bread kvass in a cool place.
4. Drink kvass in 2-3 days.
5. Utensils for wort from rye bread should be used only enameled or glass.
6. For berry kvass, take whole and ripe berries.
Homemade bread kvass: recipe without yeast
In a 0.5-liter jar, pour a glass of boiled cooled water, grind 0.5 fractions of rye bread and add a spoon (teaspoon) of sugar. We cover the sourdough in the jar with a cloth and leave the kvass in a warm place. Fermentation without yeast occurs a day or two. In a day or two we try the leaven, it should be muddy and with a sharp taste. Pour the sourdough into a 2-liter jar, add two slices of crushed bread, a tablespoon of sugar and fill the jar with chilled boiled water. Close the lid and let stand for a day. After a day or two, we taste our kvass, pour 2/3 of the liquid into a separate bowl. Add the remaining sourdough with slightly warm boiled water, add chopped bread, close and insist again.
Homemade bread kvass, the recipe of which does not include yeast, is a healthy and tasty drink that will delight you throughout the summer, and to prepare which you need very little desire, time and products.