Nature generously shares with us its gifts - plant and animal origin. People from ancient times hunted and were engaged in gathering, and from trophies prepared food. Therefore, in the diet of man are present and vegetable products, and meat, this is a vital necessity.
Balance of plant and animal products
The diet should be built depending on the age of the person, his profession, the climatic conditions in which he lives, the state of health. But in any case, the menu should include various products containing a wide range of valuable elements. At the same time, to consume products of various origins - animal and vegetable - must be in a certain ratio, taking into account the need for them in the body. Traditional peasant food is very close to these right proportions.
So, according to scientific research, a person should eat a daily kilogram of plant products, whereas meat is only two hundred grams. Those who wish can prefer vegetarian dishes, but only if they are proportionally combined with more caloric meats and fish.
How the ancestors of
lived The centuries-old folk experience shows that farmers and gatherers ate quite rationally. In the cold times, food was brewed - salt, urine, dried vegetables, mushrooms and berries. In spring, when there are not enough vitamins, peasants collected wild plants, such as quinoa, plantain, and pine.
Peasants widely used the gifts of the forest. Mushrooms, berries, nuts( from nuts squeezed out oil) were of great help to them. For seasoning, take wild garlic, dill, onions, mint.
Bread - the whole head of
But the main product for peasant families, of course, was bread. Recipes for bread are great. Various herbs were added to the flour for baking the main dish.
Until today the recipes of Russian bread without yeast, using starter cultures, have reached. The latter were prepared from rye flour, oats, barley. Such products contributed to the ingestion of useful acids and vitamins.
Soups and soup
Russian cuisine is rich in a variety of recipes for liquid dishes. In ancient times, soups and soups were prepared - liquid dishes that were spooned with a spoon.
Soups were prepared on meat, vegetable, mushroom or fish broth with the addition of various herbs only on holidays. On weekdays, they were dispensed with soups cooked on water with the addition of cereals and vegetables;whipped with milk or sour cream to give satiety.
In modern cooking, soups have become an everyday item, and herbs are added to give a more pronounced flavor.
Red hut pies
In Russian cuisine, a huge number of recipes for flour dishes, which are prepared all over the world:
- pancakes made of buckwheat, oatmeal, corn flour;
- pies with cabbage, mushrooms, fish, carrots;
- honey cakes and sugar loaves;
- cakes and kulebyaki. Baking flour products, kneading dough on leaven;it was long and not always convenient, therefore, in most cases, the housewives spoiled their families on holidays. In addition, people worked hard, and there was simply no time to prepare complex dishes, it was necessary to feed quickly and nourishingly large peasant families after a long day of work. Later, the code appeared yeast, the aroma of cakes began to be heard every day from any hut.
What drank in the old days
From oregano, chamomile cooked delicious and healthy drinks. About kvass and say nothing: every hut could taste several types of this drink. Also prepared mead, mash, sbitni.
All peasant food was based on plant foods. Of course, prepared and meat dishes. But in the old days people understood the benefits of plants more. Recipes of folk cuisine, which have survived to the present, are not just arbitrary, they have been checked for centuries;each of them contains an absolutely proportional combination of products. Therefore, it is often necessary to turn to ancient peasant dishes, at least in order to strengthen health.