1287. Vodka (1/5)
Li Du once heard a story, which should not be a story, but a fact.m.
People of a little older know that modern China once had three years of disasters, when famines were rippling across the country and they were not full of food and hunger.
The same is true in Li Du’s hometown. Many people starve to death, and those who survived have experienced the torture of hunger. He didn’t know how terrible it felt to be hungry, but the protagonist of the story is the young man from their village.
After the natural disaster period ended, the young man planted potatoes and sweet potatoes hard, and then harvested the sweet potatoes and potatoes. He stripped off all the walls of his home and made a wall with mashed potatoes and sweet potatoes, saying that he would have something to eat when he encountered famine in the future.
This incident made Li Du realize the terribleness of hunger, so he could understand Abai's pursuit of food. It is not a foodie, it is afraid of hunger.
So even though it was placed in horseradish mustard, it still did not give up eating, pointing at the fragrant soup on the table.
In Russian cuisine, soup is the first dish besides cold dishes, which can moisten the throat and promote appetite.
There are many kinds of Russian soups, including vegetable soup, red vegetable soup, rice and noodles soup, fish soup, mushroom soup, milk soup, cold soup, fruit soup, and clear soup ordered by Li Du and others.
This clear soup is not clear water soup. It is an old soup. It is stewed over high heat with fish, meat, mushrooms and other seasonings, and then remove the solid contents inside. The rest is called clear soup.
This is similar to Cantonese soup. The essence of fish, meat and vegetables is in this soup, which is strong and fragrant.
Li Du took out A Bai's small bowl and scooped some clear soup for it. A Bai hugged Gu Gu in both hands and was so happy that he drank. After drinking, it stared at the wine on the table.
Drinking alcohol in Russia naturally requires vodka.
Vodka is a national wine in Russia. It has a long history of birth and has been around for seven or eight hundred years. Vodka's vodka is famous throughout Russia.
There are two ways to brew this wine. One is the same as other grain wines, made of wheat, rye and barley. The other is to use potatoes and corn as raw materials to distillate the raw wine and filter it slowly for more than eight hours.
The latter type of vodka is popular in Vorkuta because it is a bitter and cold place with poor environment and poor land fertility. It was used to exile prisoners.
The local winter is very cold, and there is no wine to provide calories. People can produce very little wheat, so it is difficult to fill people's stomachs. How can there be excess grain to make wine?
In this way, the way of making wine in potatoes and corn was born.
As we all know, vodka is a world-famous spirit wine. In fact, its alcohol content is not very high. Most of them are between 40 degrees and 50 degrees. Europe and the United States are accustomed to using 40 degrees of alcohol as the dividing line of spirit wine.
The authentic vodka is clear and transparent, very pure, with almost no other fragrance except the aroma of the wine, and the taste is very strong.
Vodka from Volkuta was initially made of corn and potatoes, and was relatively turbid and had a worse taste than ale, so people initially added a little juice to adjust the taste.
This is not a pure way to drink vodka. Russian men claim to be tough guys and pure manly. They advocate strong wine with the same taste as a knife. Adding juice will make it a woman's wine.
But this is a small tradition of Volkuta. It has been preserved to this day. Ah Bai smelled the scent of vodka juice and thought it was delicious. He kept pointing at the vodka.
Li Du knew that this thing was terrible. Although he ordered low-degree vodka, it was more than 40 degrees. A Bai could not touch a small thing.
He shook his head to Abai and said, "You can't drink this, you can't drink this."
Ah Bai was anxious to jump up on his shoulder, and continued to point at vodka.
Godzilla poured some wine out of the chek cup containing vodka, and the fruit smelled even more intense, and saliva flashed in the corner of Abai's greedy mouth.
Seeing this, Godzilla raised his wine glass to it and smiled, "Boss, let the young man have a mouthful. How can you not have vodka in such a cold day?"
Abai tried hard to reach out on Li Du's shoulder, of course, it couldn't reach Godzilla's wine glass.
Li Du gave him annoyed look and said, "Eat yours honestly and drink yours, don't do anything randomly."
Seeing that Li Du was firm in his attitude, Abai gave up the idea and crawled down dejectedly.
Li Du poured a cup of vodka himself. He used a square cup, which contained very fine ice cubes. The vodka in the Shek cup was preserved at low temperature. When poured out, there was a white and cold steam.
Li Du didn’t know how the local people had such a strange tradition when drinking ice wine in extremely cold places, but this is the characteristic. He followed the local customs and drank it like this.
The wine glass was cold, and his palms were so icy that he felt ache. He drank a sip of wine, as if he swallowed a row of ice.
From his mouth to his stomach, he felt a cold inside his body, which made him tremble subconsciously, but soon, starting from his throat, a hot feeling burned.
As Volt added to his belly, his body warmed up.
There was still half a glass of wine in the left cup. Li Du digged caviar and put it into her mouth. Close her eyes and experience the deliciousness that is all over the world.
Then he heard the sound of the wine glass pouring on the table, and Sophie then exclaimed: "God!"
He quickly opened his eyes and found that his wine glass had fallen down, and the wine was flowing down, while Ah Bai pulled the table with one hand and hung it on it like a swing, tilting his head and opening his mouth to receive the strong wine flowing down from the table.
This vodka is cold, not strong at first, the entrance is soft, but it has a strong stamina.
Abai felt nothing while drinking vodka. It drank the water from the flowing wine. Seeing Li Du noticed his little movement, he shook his body and jumped down and ran behind Sophie to avoid it.
Li Du quickly asked the others: "What will happen if the monkey drinks alcohol?"
No one has time to answer, the answer has already appeared.
The vodka's stamina appears very quickly, first of all, the taste stamina appears, which is very exciting and hot.
Ah Bai jumped out from behind Sophie, throbbing hard with his hands, and the white hair on his body exploded again.
The driver looked at it pitifully and said, "Oh, this naughty boy, it's going to be miserable."
Ah Bai is indeed very miserable. The alcohol is too irritating. Its small eyes have turned red, jumping and jumping, but silently, because it will be choked by alcohol and unable to make a sound!
Li Du quickly took a glass of apple juice to rinse his mouth. A Bai pushed it away and continued to jump crazy.
He asked Sophie: "Will something happen? How should I help it?"
Sophie said: "I'm helping it, it should be fine."
"How do you help it?"
"I'm drawing a cross to pray for it, don't you see it?"
Li Du felt relieved. Of course, this was not because he believed in the power of God, but because Sophie was in the mood to joke, Abai should not have much trouble.
Chapter completed!