Chapter 1287 - Vodka (1/2)

Chapter 1287: Vodka

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio <i class="_hr">Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Li Du once heard a story, which was rooted in fact

As any Chinese of a certain age knew, China once had a three-year period of disaster, when there was fary

Li Du’s home county suffered too Many people starved to death, and those who survived experienced the torture of hunger He did not kno terrible the feeling of hunger was, but the protagonist of the story was a youth froes

After the natural disaster, the young man worked hard to plant potatoes and sweet potatoes, and then after harvesting the crop, he removed the walls of his ho that there would be so to eat in the future when there was famine

This event er, so he could understand Ah Bai’s pursuit of food The little er

Therefore, even though the dish was spiced with horseradish andto the delicious broth and squeaking

In Russian cuisine, soup was the first course in addition to cold dishes, serving to moisten the throat and stimulate the appetite

There werevegetable soup, red vegetable soup, rice noodle soup, fish soup, mushroom soup, milk soup, cold soup, fruit soup, and the clear broth that Li Du ordered

This broth, while very clear, containedpot with fish, s Then the solids were taken out, leaving only the broth

It was sietables

Li Du took out Ah Bai’s bowl and scooped soulped the soup down After it drank the soup, its eyes moved to the alcoholic drink on the table

A meal in Russia was usually accompanied by vodka Vodka was Russia’s national liquor, with a long history of up to 800 years Vodka fro the most famous in Russia

The drink was brewed in tays: one way to rain alcohol, and the otheralcohol froht hours

Vorkuta’s vodka was commonly made with the latter method, because it was a harsh, cold place, with poor soil conditions for growing grain

The local winters were very cold, and people would suffer if they couldn’t warm up with a bit of vodka Grain was scarce, there was not enough of it even for food, so there was a need for alternative brewingpotatoes and corn

As all knew, vodka was a liquors Its alcohol content was very high, 40 to 50 degrees European and Arees as the upper boundary

Authentic vodka was clear, very pure, with al

Vorkuta’s vodka, which was originally made from corn and potatoes, was cloudy and tasted worse than ale, so at first, people would add a little juice to improve the taste

This wasn’t how people drank pure vodka Russian uys, and they liked throat-burning liquors It would be girlish to drink vodka with fruit juice

Nevertheless, it was a small local tradition that has survived Ah Bai sood, and pointed to the drink and squeaked

Li Du knehat it actually was Although he ordered a rees Ah Bai could not drink this

He shook his head at Ah Bai and said, “No, you can’t drink that”