We all know A. FROM. Pushkin as a great Russian poet. But few people know about the culinary preferences of a classic. So what's eating the poet? What were the most favorite dishes? All this I tell you right now!
The most favorite dishes
Alexander Pushkin was not a great foodie and was not fussy about food. Often exquisite dishes he preferred simple - soup, cakes, cereal, potatoes. The poet's favorite dish was the hookah with a cucumber. She cooked him a nanny - Arina.
To prepare Cagli Nanny used chicken broth, cucumber pickle, pickles, chicken, vegetables, smoked bacon, spinach. Kalju served with croutons.
Calla - not only the poet's favorite dish. Classic also liked
beet soup with sturgeon, baked potatoes, sauerkraut, buckwheat. Potatoes for Pushkina baked in Russian furnace ash.
Pushkin is also very fond of pancakes, especially the pink, which were baked with beets. By the way, these pancakes recipe is on my channel, so go and see here here.
As I mentioned, Pushkin was not gourmet, but it was a treat, which he could not afford to refuse. The poet loved cheese. However, apart from the Pushkin, in his house no one was willing to try this cheese more. And once his nurse Arina, while the poet was not at home, threw the cheese, because he is "so very bad groin."
When Pushkin was married, he had hired a cook. Here is what says the maid of honor Anna Smirnova, which had a chance to dine at the house of Pushkin:
"... I still loved to dine at the Pushkin. They served green soup with hard-boiled eggs, chopped large patties with spinach or sorrel and white dessert jam gooseberry "
Sweet
For dessert, the poet loved not only preserves, but also cake Blancmange and varenets (analog sour milk today, only thicker). Varenets in those days, served with sugar to tea and pastries.
By the way, sweet pastries Pushkin liked apple pie and more strassburgsky with plums or peaches. The restaurant sweet Alexander often ordered cold raspberry soup.
Drinks and Alcohol
Pushkin loved tea, iced coffee, cranberry juice, cranberry water. When it was night and the inspiration he took up his pen and wrote, always asked me to bring him a lemonade. By the way, before you go to a duel, Pushkin stopped at a pastry shop and drank lemonade there.
With regard to alcohol, the Pushkin did not abuse them, but he could drink. In the 19th century was popular zhzhenka, drank wine and champagne among the Russian nobility. It zhzhenku, according to his contemporaries, Pushkin liked the most.
What dishes I advised Pushkin friends
As we know, Pushkin had a lot of friends with whom he corresponded. Sometimes, the conversation turned to the topic of food and Pushkin recommend friends to visit certain places in St. Petersburg, but also advised to try some dishes: pasta with parmesan cheese (in the 19th century in Russia, and the pasta and parmesan cheese only began to appear, so we were fine food), cutlets Pozharsky poached eggs.
All these dishes are the poet himself liked the restaurant to order in French.
Fruits and berries
Pushkin loved pickled apples, cranberries in sugar, cranberries. Also fruit poet liked peaches. Once Alexander in one sitting ate 20 peaches, very surprised than the others.
But before his death, Pushkin was wounded during a duel, very much wanted soaked cloudberry. That's what the doctor recalled I.Spassky:
"... Shortly before his death he wanted cloudberries. Hastily sent for this berry. He eagerly awaits her and repeated several times:
- cloudberries, cloudberry.
Finally brought cloudberries.
- Call my wife, - said Pushkin, - let it feeds me.
He ate 2 - 3 berries, swallowed a few spoonfuls of juice Cloudberry said - rather, and sent his wife... "
A few minutes after that Pushkin was gone.
I hope this article was informative to you and our beloved poet opened on the other side. Thanks for attention!
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