The article considers rye field from the point of view of different people: grain growers, ordinary people of Russia, poets, artists. The color and other sensations caused by the field of ripe rye are analyzed. The advantages and disadvantages of the wooden rye field bread box are considered.
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The phrase "rye field" in a person who grew up in Russia, causes a clear image of the vastness of the vast horizon, the fullness and joy of being. Apparently, this is an atavistic feeling, the sensations of our ancestors, rejoicing in complete freedom and that the winter ahead will be full. After all, it was rye that was grown on our Russian land, it was it that yielded excellent crops in the region, where early and late frosts, bad weather, thunderstorms destroyed wheat, a more capricious and less cold-resistant crop.
Praised by poets
“Rye, rye ... The field road leads somewhere unknown, over the field, sagging low, groaning lazily wires. The rye was leaving, the deadlines were close, it was heavy and on the edge, it leaned all the way to the road, hung, even though it was supported. ” These lines of Alexander Twardowski simply sing about the rye field, as about a woman "in the demolition," ready to give birth to a healthy baby just about.
This is precisely the echoes of the memory of our ancestors, for whom the earth was the nurse, whom they cherished and cherished in order to get a bigger crop and survive.
It is difficult for us who buy bread in the store to understand, but we feel it. As Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin felt in his painting "Rye", where a huge rye field with a large pine in the middle is flooded with sun, where everything is full of will and contentment, happiness and joy.
What color is the field
Why is the color of the rye field hot? In addition to the fact that all Russians love fast driving, they all also prefer to walk and ride through fields and meadows, admiring their motley grass and colorfulness. Each field has its own color. Chamomile has white, poppy has red, and wheat has golden yellow.
And what color is the rye field? Not taking into account the sprouts and unripe rye, which will be green, let's go straight to the field of ripe rye, when the shades of the yellow-green ripening culture are replaced by yellowish-red. Rye, rust, red. The resemblance is unconditional. So it will be a red color. And also visible golden and brown, buffy yellow.
And all this beauty shimmers under the sun, walks under the wind in waves, giving also shades of red. Warm colors, very warm. And all because the orange-red and even a little reddish is a shade of very hot fire. That is why the color of the rye field is hot, as the bread baked from rye flour will be hot and tasty.
Strada is from the word “suffering”
The harvest was called harvest time in Russia. Such cleaning was difficult: by hand, with sickles, bent in half, the women shook all day, trying not to drop the spikelet, not to lose a grain. Yes, and do not get hurt! “The rural suffering is in full swing. You’re a Russian share, it’s hardly harder to find! ” - wrote Nikolai Nekrasov.
And now, those who know firsthand the cleaning are unlikely to call the strada easy, despite the cutting-edge cleaning equipment.
It is difficult for combine operators to work from dawn to dawn in grain dust, there is nothing to breathe in the sun-heated cabin, but one must also deal with rather complicated equipment, which can fail at any moment. Smiling combiners at the cab of their car against the background of an rye field look fake. If the worker gets out of the cab, he, covered in dust, grimy and tormented by heat, will immediately look for shadows where to sit down and drink. He will only wash and eat in the evening, after sunset. And tomorrow, back to work. And so all the suffering.
And women are shoveling grain so that it drapes and dries, all in scarves blindfolded “by the eyes”, in dust from straw, sometimes under a canopy, more often in the open. And the drivers who transport grain and simply fall asleep at the wheel from fatigue, are also signs of suffering, hot and heavy.
In the picture and in the photo the rye field should look like this: beautiful, hot, full-bodied, but also reminiscent of the hard work of the grain growers.
There is such a bread box
“Bread is the head of everything” - they have long been saying in Russia. This is true, one must be able to preserve bread, like the work of thousands of people and store it correctly.
There are a huge number of glass and aluminum bread bins, plastic and wood. Their color is also very different: white, yellow, red, striped, polka dot, etc.
The rye field bread box of the Avanty-stile trademark is made of wood, equipped with a hinged lid, painted with bread rolls, ears of ripe wheat with a poppy head in addition. It looks hot, mouth-watering and bright, since the colors used are orange, yellow, brown and their shades that go into red. And on top of it is varnished.
Natural wood protects bread well from drying out, but also prevents it from moldy. The bread box inside and outside is easy to clean. The design of the device allows you to slightly open the lid, at a high temperature in the kitchen, for example, so that the bread does not get wet. The bread box is stationary, as it is heavy for carrying. She has a small but very comfortable handle that easily opens it to the desired angle.
It is a pity that the bread-box hardly fits into fashionable modern cuisine in the style of "high-tech" or "Provence".