In the heat, you always want to drink, but not all drinks quickly quench your thirst. However, you can make kvass. This amazing drink has been appreciated at all times. But first you need to make a leaven.
There are several ways to prepare a leaven for kvass. However, you will need to get the necessary ingredients, they are different in each recipe, but very useful. As a result, you will be able to support your body in the exhausting heat.
Bread leaven
Bread sourdough is considered the most popular because the drink based on it is very tasty. To prepare it, you will need to find 125 g of sugar, 250 ml of warm water, 50 g of pressed yeast, 20 g of dried bread.
When all the ingredients for the sourdough are collected, you will need to take a saucepan, pour a little boiled water, put on fire and heat up to 40 ° C. After that, sugar should be dissolved in it and dry bread crumbs should be soaked. The mass is left alone for an hour so that it is well infused. During this time, you need to soak the yeast in warm water. Now the contents of both glasses are mixed and placed in a dark place for 2 days. After this time, the bread leaven can be used to make homemade kvass.
Yeast-free sourdough
No less popular is the recipe for sourdough without yeast, but it will take more time to ferment. However, the taste will be simply amazing, so it's worth preparing it according to this recipe at least once. For a yeast-free sourdough, the following ingredients are required: 50 g of honey, 100 g of rye bread, apple peel, 100 ml of boiled water, grape skins.
A little warm boiled water is poured into a saucepan, honey, apple peel and grape skins are added. All ingredients are well mixed and placed in a dark place for fermentation. As soon as 3 days have passed, the container with the sourdough is taken out, and crumbs of dried rye bread are added to it. Then she goes back to a dark place. As soon as the fermentation process becomes active, you can start making kvass.
The sourdough of their rye bread
You can make a sourdough from rye bread, then the drink will have a peculiar taste and a darker color. This will require 1.5 kg of rye bread, 100 g of yeast, 3 glasses of sugar, 10 liters of boiled water.
First you need to take rye bread, finely chop and fry until golden brown in a frying pan with vegetable oil. After that, everything is transferred to a saucepan and poured with boiling water. Now this mass should stand for 4 hours. Then it is strained, and yeast, mashed with sugar, is added to it. All this will need to be mixed and filtered through cheesecloth. In it will remain thick, which is the leaven.
