Yesterday, in the bread department of the supermarket, I once again realized that there was a huge choice, but there was nothing to take ...
Usually I buy grain or bran bread, baguette, black or rye bread for everyday meals. Sometimes corn. Depending on the menu for the day and fleeting taste preferences. Sometimes - lavash, matnakash, some other cakes.
In general, I have no particular complaints about bread.
But the assortment of all kinds of buns upsets me. if you want a delicious bun, you have to look into a specialized bakery, and it’s not a fact that the buns will be really tasty there. Five hours after baking and that's it - after the first bite, the appetite disappears. And that's not the worst case yet. Most often, products become tasteless almost immediately after they have cooled down.
And then nostalgia rolls over me. In my "bad and hungry" Soviet childhood, in any bakery one could get hold of a roll, which was tucked into both cheeks.
In the first place I have always been "Sverdlovsk" buns, made from soft muffins with sweet sprinkles. Remember those? In order to bite such a loaf, you had to open your mouth... Wow. But it could be burned, and then the bun became completely flat. And when you let go of the tight spot, the bun spreads out almost to its original volume.
The second place is buns. "Moscow", it seems, they were called. Heart-shaped curl, generously sprinkled with sugar before baking. the sugar was melted, giving the crust a blush, crunchiness and a slightly caramel flavor. With milk from a triangular bag there was such a bun with a bang. No other dinner was needed (especially if you run around the yard and the surrounding area with a whole company from morning to evening).
Third place - buns of 10 (or 9?) Kopecks. They seem to be called "high-calorie". Buns made of snow-white elastic buns with a glossy, varnished crust, several pieces per block. Someone liked the buns from the middle - where there are fewer crusts, someone - from the edge.
And then there were bagels. Not croissants, but bagels. The simplest bagels cost, it seems, three kopecks. They weren't sweet, so they went great for sandwiches. Build yourself one like this - in the middle of a sausage, a bagel on top and bottom... And delicious.
And another disappointment - bagels. The bagels, with or without poppy sprinkle, could be eaten. With pleasure! I've never tasted delicious bagels. Those that come across are edible only under one condition - if you warm them up. Moreover, they are edible for five minutes after warming up - after that they again become tough and unpleasant. Previously, a bagel at the price of five kopecks and a bottle of Buratino - and that's it, full for half a day, and delicious to you.
All of these bagel buns began to disappear when the first bakeries began to bake "fluffy" white bread. By the way, I don't like him. He is empty.
Shl, and from "high-calorie" buns we made "cakes". The bun was cut across into three parts, each slice was coated with butter and jam, and collected back. The baking in it allowed this to be created and the taste was wonderful.
By the way, please, if you know where to buy good pastries now (not only in Moscow, but in general, in any city), what enterprises bake what delicious - you share your turnouts and passwords in comments. Such information is useful to many.