So, what's the taste of Russian Leba of Harbin Lin Qiu Company? Generally speaking, the flavor of yeast fermentation is very strong (beneficial to the stomach), slightly sour and salty, even slightly bitter, and it is too hard to be stored for a long time without deterioration. People who read for the first time will definitely think that this kind of food doesn't meet the dietary standards of China people, but they will like it after getting used to it, and it is very hungry ... But this kind of bread is called "Baileba", which is probably equivalent to our steamed bread in China.
This kind of "Heileba" in the picture is made after many times of flour proportion adjustment and formula change, and its taste and nutrition have made great progress compared with before.
Russia's "Heileba" is also known as Russia's "Wotou"! Now nutritionists say it is healthy, nutritious, and rich in dietary fiber ... and even can "scrape oil" to lose weight. It is recommended to eat more ... That's because living conditions are good now, let alone eating big fish and meat every day. Almost everyone who gained three pounds during the holiday is overweight, but "Heileba" is a "steamed bread" after all! Eat for a month in a row? Make sure you can eat the whole elbow, and the weight loss plan will be ruined. Needless to say, even in the fifties and sixties, our ancestors didn't have much flour and rice in their food. They ate wowotou every day! Everyone dreams of eating rice and white flour every day ... so does Russia. Who doesn't want to eat "Belleba" every day? But the problem is that wheat production is so low that only the rich can afford it. The wheat harvested by ordinary people is not enough for the whole family to eat. It can only be ground without shelling and bran removal ... but it's not enough to eat. We also need to add some miscellaneous grains such as rye and oats (according to our understanding, it is "miscellaneous noodles"), grind them into flour and bake them into bread, which is "Heileba".
The picture shows the first famous brand of "Heileba": Borodino Heileba, with "parsley seeds" on the plate next to it.
The poor have fun in hardship, and they also divide Russia's "Wotou" into grades or brand effects. It is said that the best "Heileba" is "Borodino Heileba" (now it is also the first bread in Russia, but the manufacturing technology and materials are far better than those of that year). It is said that when Emperor Napoleon led his troops to invade Russia in 18 12, he fought against the Russian army in Borodino village in the western suburbs of Moscow. The nuns in Borodino Monastery (foreign nuns) added "French fragrant seeds" (parsley) to the "mixed noodles" to bake a special taste of black bread (authentic fragrant seeds "baguette"), which was well received by Russian soldiers ... thus "Borodino Heileba" became famous at one fell swoop.
"Borodino Heileba" is a famous brand, so what is the worst "Heileba"? In the battle of Leningrad, the Soviet people only supplied 125 grams of Heileba every day! There is also a unified ticket supply. The paper in the picture is a bread coupon. Is there a fork on the side? Paper money is the quantity you receive at one time. You have to tear it off ... you have to go to the food distribution point every day to get it ... What is the concept of 125g? Not even three or two, and this kind of black bread is mixed with 15 ~ 25% sawdust, even some kind of ore powder! Its purpose is not easy to digest, so that "black bread" will stay in the stomach for a while and won't be hungry for a while, but this kind of thing is not only rationed very little, but also has no nutrition at all. During the 872-day siege, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians starved to death in Leningrad!
The trademark on the "junk lunch meat" that the United States helped the Soviet Union has been printed in Russian.
In fact, not only Leningrad, but two months after Germany invaded the Soviet Union, Ukraine was also occupied by the Germans, and the Soviet Union lost its "granary"! Young men and women signed up for the war, and no one worked on the farm ... There was a national food shortage, especially high-protein and high-fat non-staple foods. Soldiers fight in the front line and eat "black Baba" without nutrition every day. Where do they get their strength? In order to destroy the common enemy Germany (as for the post-war hostility, that is another matter), the United States provided emergency food to the Soviet Union through the Lending Act. Besides lunch meat, canned fat pork is more popular with Soviet soldiers.
Female workers in American canned food enterprises are dividing pork.
After pork is cut, it needs seasoning and pickling before it can be canned and steamed.
Assembly line operation, pickled pork will be weighed in separate cans, then matured in a large steamer and cooled!
The finished product is packaged and shipped to the Soviet Union.
The contents of the can are just like those in the picture. It is flavored with fragrant leaves, black pepper and salt. The white paste in the spoon is concentrated lard. The Soviet Union is located in the cold zone, so it needs to eat a lot of high-fat food to keep out the cold. Americans also know the living habits of the Soviets, so they produced a large number of canned fat pork to support the Soviet Union.
American food aid really helped the Soviet Union. At least frontline soldiers can eat a few pieces of fat while eating black Lebanon, which can supplement a lot of energy.
For us in China, bread is basically a kind of "advanced dessert", which is filled with cream and sprinkled with coconut milk in the picture. The worst thing is sliced as "toast bread" for breakfast, but the Hei Bang eaten by the Soviets is quite different! It is something that tastes rough, unpalatable and difficult to swallow. Because of the low yield and small planting area of wheat, not most people can eat white flour. The people at the bottom can only try their best to fill their stomachs with other miscellaneous grains. What can they eat without it? It's just a matter of food shortage. Why haven't you heard of: Canadian black bread, American black bread, Australian black bread ...? Because these countries are big grain producers, there is no shortage of wheat as the basic grain.
German black bread was also the hard-core field rations of the whole German army in World War II.
Coincidentally, Germany also has black bread, which is almost the same as Russian black bread. Before the industrialization of Germany, ordinary people also ate it. When they entered industrialization, the taste of ordinary people also improved. They want to spread honey on brown bread to improve the taste (sweetness will bring happiness), but Germany can't produce much honey. Later, the Germans invented "artificial honey", that is, adding a little glucose to sucrose (only sugar beet in Germany) and fructose.
The war has long passed, but "Heileba" is still one of the daily staple foods of Russians, but its nutritional content has been greatly improved. At the same time, Russia's small-scale production has reached the second place in the world and its export volume ranks first in the world! "Baileba" can be eaten at any time, but Russia is still willing to eat Heileba, a bit like Shandong people are willing to eat miscellaneous grains pancakes.
Vodka, pickled cucumber and black leba are the soul foods on the Russian table.
One thing, the worse the natural environment, the more advanced civilization can be created, because poverty will change! Bad natural conditions cannot be changed, but we should change bad lifestyles through our own wisdom and efforts.
Maybe Russians ate Bereba hundreds of years ago, so they can't be called "fighting people".