Ingvar from St. Petersburg recalls: Those whose childhood was spent in the Soviet Union certainly remembered some certain foods with their irretrievably lost taste. For example, for many it is hot bread. Remember - they send you for bread, you go into the store, and before you reach the trays with bakery products you understand that today you can not take a piece of paper to feel the softness of bread or rolls. Ah, the smell of freshly baked bread, which you can't find in stores these days! And by the time you get back home, you have already eaten a good part of the warm loaf, because it is impossible to resist!

In short, let's remember what we couldn't be pulled off by the ears in childhood. Let's start with drinks...

The same juice

As far as I remember, there were several types of juice in jars of the Odessa plant. The price also depended on the specific type. The empty can of 0.25 in Glassware itself cost, in my opinion, 10 kopecks, respectively, the price of your favorite juice varied from 17 to 25 kopecks. I immediately recall birch, tomato (favorite juice), plain apple, clarified apple, apple with pulp, grape-apple, grape, carrot, carrot-apple, quince, plum, pear, pear-apple and orange. If I missed something and someone else remembers - tell me

I did not find authentic photos of juice cans, so that's it.

Also, in these same jars, popularly called mayonnaise, they also sold Nezhenka applesauce, which, by the way, I still adore. I found a similar taste at FrutoNyanya - good products.
But unlike today, then it was impossible to open a glass container with a flick of the wrist and enjoy juice or applesauce. Good "lamp" jars were tightly closed with a tin lid (and no thread) and the only way to get to the coveted goodies was using a can opener/can opener. The only way . In addition to the "light" versions with packaging of juices in 250 gram jars, there was also a "hard" version - with three-liter jars, sometimes called cylinders. True, the assortment of juices in such jars was significantly lower, and the glass products themselves were almost never handed over to Steklotaru, since such dishes were extremely in demand in Soviet families - most jams, pickles and other preservations were rolled into dishes of just such a volume.

Cylinders

However, the mayonnaise and “balloon” version was not the only way to taste fruit pomace, commonly called juice. It is, so to speak, a home system. And there was also an exit ...
Almost every large store had a department where the suffering traveler could enjoy the pleasant moisture for bottling. Remember there were such huge cones that for some reason attracted our attention. At the end of the cone, narrowed downwards, there was a faucet through which juice could be obtained. The saleswoman opened a three-liter jar of juice, poured it into a cone and from there sold it, so to speak, in a glassful manner. Sometimes, in a more simplified version, several simple decanters were used instead of cones, forlornly covered with a long-used napkin (insect filter in the simplest version).

Juice grower's corner

Usually there were 3-4 cones in the store, or the same number of decanters. Accordingly, the most common varieties of fruit juices were birch (the main thing is not fresh)), apple, sometimes grape. And of course, the main bestseller of those years is tomato. And the presence of this "drink of the gods" meant 3 more devices that would lead to a state of reactive psychosis of any foreigner who had observed them at least once in his life. The first is a faceted glass filled to the brim with coarse-grained salt. The second glass in which there was a liquid of a slightly scarlet color that has not been changed for a long time, in which one could logically assume ordinary water with the remnants of tomato juice, and the third device is a twisted aluminum tablespoon, which was thoroughly fastened to the counter, but usually was in a glass with light scarlet liquid. The ritual was as follows: the buyer took a glass (also usually faceted) from the insides of innocent tomatoes, scooped up salt with a spoon, stirred it with the same spoon, and then dipped it into a glass with a light scarlet liquid, apparently passing it disinfection. A glass of the most common apple and tomato juice usually cost 10 kopecks. The cheapest birch was 8 kopecks.

One of the many variations

In addition to juice, we could enjoy 2 more types of delicious liquid.
First of all, it is, of course, bread kvass. Huge bright yellow barrels stood in many places of the city, and the citizens, tired of the summer heat, sipped with pleasure the original Russian drink. Naturally, there were "horror stories" in use, that corpses and other horrors were constantly found in the barrel, but no one believed in them. Kvass could be taken on the spot or a mug with a volume of 0.5, or a small glass - 0.25. For the latter, you had to pay 3 kopecks, respectively, the big one cost 6. But parents and grandparents sent us with three-liter jars, or enameled cans - there should be a lot of kvass. And just drink, and okroshka. Kvass was respected.

Busy summer demand

We, children, appreciated more what adults called "pop". That is, all sorts of lemonades.
There were 2 ways to get lemonade in our happy childhood. The simplest and most commonly used is through the soda dispensers that stood on almost every corner.
If we think sensibly now, then some Gennady Onishchenko should have been horrified, because a glass of general use (again, faceted - where without it)) was truly popular. And the weak trickle of water, with the help of which he, so to speak, washed himself, caused only laughter. Plus, such glasses were often used as necessary utensils for those who like to “figure out for three”. So the amount of infection per square millimeter on this glass container should have exceeded all conceivable and unthinkable limits. However, somehow the majority treated this indifferently - and nothing, everyone seemed to survive somehow))

Soda machines

In my childhood, there were no longer red soda machines that we can see in the same "Operation Y", and gray-blue beckoned us. Most often, the variation was simple - simple soda - 1 kopeck, water with syrup (usually pear) - 3 kopecks. A small light hack: since simple soda was always flowing at first, for 6 kopecks you could make yourself almost a full glass of syrup, which we often used.

popular coin

Well, the most squeak, of course - it was sweet bottled water. In our time there was no Coca-Cola with Mirinda, but you know, dear ones, the variety of fruit waters was not weak. How strong can be estimated in such a collection: http://vk.com/id138478338?z=albums138478338

Bottle "Pinocchio"

I figured here that since childhood I tried to try as many lemonades as possible. In addition to Pinocchio, Bell, Cream Soda, Tarragon, Duchesse, Kryushon, I remember Isindi, Wild Berry, Pear, Citro, Orange, Tangerine "and somewhere else about 10-15 varieties. "Sayans" and "Baikal" stood apart. They were more expensive (the cheapest lemonade could be bought for 12 kopecks) and tastier. By the way, I buy “drinks from Chernogolovka” here all the time - and the taste is similar.

Label from that "Baikal"

Taking Baltic lemonade was a special chic. Every summer I spent with my grandmother in Ukraine, and the train passed through the Baltic states. We always bought lemonade in Daugavpils - it was of excellent quality there (like all Baltic goods in those years). By the way, train rides during the "parade of sovereignties" resembled Russian roulette on a roller coaster) So in 1993, the following customs had to be crossed in a day (Russia - entry, Belarus entry and exit, Latvia - entry and exit, Lithuania - entry and exit , Ukraine - entry). It invigorated, so to speak, such a trip. Although this is a completely different story.

Somewhat unexpectedly - Lithuanian ... "Sayans"

And finally, a few words should be said about Pepsi-Cola. It was a slightly different drink than Pepsi, but was bottled in factories created under license from Pepsico. In 1974, the leadership of the Soviet Union agreed with the president of this giant to build several factories in exchange for distribution rights for Stolichnaya vodka in the United States.

That Pepsi Cola

Pepsi took full advantage, and most Soviet children considered Pepsi-Cola to be a welcome drink. Despite the fact that it cost as much as 45 kopecks, while in a small bottle 0.33 (most lemonades were poured into beer "cheburashkas"). Ordinary lemonade could be bought at a price of 12 to 35 kopecks.

1983

For some reason, I especially remember the branded pavilions, including in Pushkin

ice cream cakes

In any grocery store of the country of that time, you could find several types of cakes. These are "eclair" (well, or in another way custard), "sand", a basket with cream and a tube with cream. All of them cost 22 kopecks. By the way, did you know that the name "eclair" was invented in the 19th century by the famous French culinary specialist Marie-Antoine Karem. So in French they call lightning, and cakes got this name for the speed of production and a brilliant appearance.

These are the eclairs

In addition to the above, in stores it was sometimes possible to buy a honey cake and sour cream for the same money. The ubiquitous "Potato" cost a little less - from 16 to 18 kopecks. The same amount (16 kopecks) was the price of a cake with raisins. It was cheaper to take only a shortbread "ringlet" - 8 kopecks, a muffin for 10, a bun with cream - for 10, and a bagel with poppy seeds for 6 kopecks. But the rum woman, in which, to be honest, I liked only the most delicious icing, cost 25 kopecks - no less

potato

It is clear that the taste largely depended on the territory of production. For example, in Leningrad both "eclairs" and "baskets" were tastier than in Ukraine, but "potatoes" and bagels with poppy seeds, on the contrary, I don't even know what the trick is. That is, it was necessary to determine which city had its bestsellers and buy them

Attraction "don't let the cream fall on the ground"))

I remember there was also such a shortbread cake "Karpaty", which every time guests brought, and which I categorically did not like. But I adored the "Leningrad Set". Remember, such mini-goodies in a beautiful box, which we only had in Leningrad (Captain Obviousness once again was happy for me). However, they can still be bought, although this is somewhat different. How much it cost then in the USSR - I don’t remember, but it’s certainly not cheap - I wasn’t particularly spoiled with this very set

This is what the "Leningrad set" looked like

The holiday was when the cake was bought. I still love waffle-chocolate, which is now called "Baltic". It was inexpensive, relatively (1 ruble 10 kopecks, as far as I remember) and was delicious ..... But other similar cakes - “Polar” and “Surprise” somehow didn’t really use it. Didn't like it.

Particularly pleased with the influx of chocolate

There was also such a thing as a creamy log. Hello to all diets - a terrible amount of calories, probably - but tasty Something like a big creamy sausage, with nuts, and on top there is such a powerful cream In general, a tough thing - but I destroyed them like Papa Carlo in working on the perfect Pinocchio

Something like this..

But with large cakes, tension. Really. I remember right off the bat, only "Fairy Tale" for 1 ruble 90, "Prague" - a sort of version of the now famous Sacher, and the absolute bestseller of childhood - "Kiev". In Ukraine, I ate enough of it, although it was not cheap - about 4 rubles, but in Leningrad it was impossible to get it in principle.

Authentic "Prague" of those times

They say that some ordered directly from Kiev - it is dry inside - so it was possible to negotiate with the conductor - she brought it on the train. The price was from 15 to 20 rubles per cake. This is not a weak profit. If you remember any other ones, tell/show. BUT only purchased! That magnificent variety of homemade pastries, we will not touch with you - because this is not a conversation for one post))

This is what I call the Kiev oligarch!

The biggest delicacy of children in our time was, of course, “a dairy product enriched with air” (full name according to GOST) or simply ice cream IMHO, we had the most delicious ice cream in the Soviet Union in Leningrad. But there are variations.)

Do not give more than 2 in your hands !!!

The most chic was to go to an ice cream parlor, like the still fairly recently functioning "Frrog" on Nevsky. Ice cream balls, certainly in memorable metal bowls, and for some reason with aluminum spoons. It (ice cream) could be poured with syrup, or sprinkled with chocolate and / or nuts. It was possible to have both, and the third at the same time. The price for one hundred grams was from 19 to 23 kopecks.

I especially remember these.

And be sure to take a milkshake for 11 kopecks (mmmmm .... the taste of childhood), or a float cocktail (a ball of ice cream in orange juice) for 18. This is not just chic - but chic cubed
There were usually 3 variations of ice cream - creamy, creme brulee, chocolate. Less often - fruit.

Device that made my heart skip a beat

Again, do not forget about the various jellies and soufflés that could be purchased at these same ice cream parlors. I remember in Ukraine, the local "Frog" was called the "Pinocchio" cafe, and the ice cream there, by the way, was so-so, but the jelly was such that a pioneer tie, a set of badges and a program for a football match could be sold for it at the same time )))

How could you get past this?

And for some reason, I still have a strong impression of an unearthly taste (and high cost) ice cream, which I managed to try in the closed bar of the Oktyabrskaya Hotel. I don’t remember why I was so struck by this ice cream, but it was divine.

Something like that, only 30 times better

As an option for buying bulk ice cream, I recall cases when in the spring of 1985, every Saturday and Sunday, they brought ice cream from Voentorg to the House of Officers in Sertolovo, where I lived then, from Voentorg, which was packaged in the same balls, but not in creamers, but in crispy waffle cups. Moreover, these cups were so tasty that they were remembered in memory, and not the ice cream itself.

Something similar...

Another alternative to bulk milk treats was the so-called "soft ice cream". I don’t really like him now, I didn’t really love him then either (again, I saw from which dirty bucket they pour milk mixture into the machine). But there was one exception. Somehow, having arrived in handsome Kiev, already at Zhuliany airport, I received apricot soft ice cream for exemplary behavior. And I liked it SO much that my parents had to please me 3 more times - on Khreshchatyk, on Andreevsky Descent and in Darnitsa

Freezer for the production of soft ice cream in Ukraine

And until now, Kiev is often associated with me not only with a huge number of the most beautiful girls per square kilometer, with the greenery and beauty of streets and squares, with the majesty of the mighty Dnieper, but also with the taste of that same children's soft apricot ice cream.

Now that we have walked through the loose ice cream, it's time to remember the packaged. For me, there is no doubt that the most delicious, the best, the most interesting was ours, at that time Leningrad. But there were a few exceptions. When, for example, in the mid-80s, I first visited the city on 7 hills (but not Rome)), I really liked the ice cream called Borodino from Fili. By the way - they generally had delicious ice cream and eat it. It was, however, a little expensive - 26 kopecks. But it was worth it. Or, on the annual trip to and from Ukraine, I definitely tried to get ice cream on a stick in chocolate at the railway station in Vilnius. Like everything Baltic - it was of high quality and tasty.

Roughly like this

If there was a difference in taste, then in terms of price categories and the range of packaged ice cream in general, the system was approximately the same across the country in those years.
The cheapest was the so-called fruit and berry ice cream - such as lemon, cranberry or raspberry. It was sold in a paper cup with a wooden stick in addition (which was often not enough) and it cost 7 and 9 kopecks. For 7 kopecks, to be honest, it was quite disgusting. True, while relaxing in Sevastopol, I somehow found that lemon is quite suitable for me. But for 9 - it was very good.

fruit and berry

Now this is often called sherbet. A paper circle was molded on top of the ice cream indicating the manufacturer, price, GOST and the stall selling ice cream from a distance was visible from these same circles, which usually covered the entire side wall.

Ice cream stand from the early 80s

Then there was dairy for 10 kopecks. It seems like "Morozko" was called. Also in a paper cup, on which cherries were sometimes painted, and I thought that the ice cream was fruit there - but no

So...

Currant cost 11 kopecks, and ice cream and creme brulee cost 15 kopecks. These were the most expensive types of ice cream in a paper cup.

..or so

The perfect bestseller of our time was ice cream in a waffle cup. I remember that the delivery in Ukraine was at noon, and we all "grazed" near the ice cream stand, waiting for what they would bring this time. If they brought a product from a local creamery, then it was unhealthy - it was not very tasty. But if they delivered Lviv .... oooh .... it was cool!

Cream.

I was guaranteed one portion a day - my grandfather, a big sweet lover, was just returning home for lunch, and he always gave money so that I could buy ice cream for myself and him. But in the presence of Lvov, we all opened our hiding places and fished out treasured coins in order to get additional portions. It was possible to replenish the hiding place if there was some kind of wedding in the yard in the near future. According to a good Ukrainian tradition, the main friend walked 3 times around the cars with the newlyweds and guests and sprinkled them (cars) with grain and coins. The younger friend "sowed" more sweets - but I disdained to collect them, but coins - that's it.

Portion of ice cream!

Moreover, if the wedding was rich, then 2 categories of the population rejoiced most of all - children who could collect not coppers for 1-3 kopecks, but nickel for 15-20 kopecks, and alcoholics, who could get almost up to a box of vodka or "red"))

This is how ice cream was advertised in our years ... Just kidding. In the USA and much earlier

By the way, it was called ice cream not because of falling out dental fillings, but by the name of the French town of Plombier-les-Bains (Vosges department), which was famous under Napoleon III for its excellent ice cream recipe made from the freshest cream and butter.

Homeland ice cream

But we digress a little. Let's return to our delicious sheep. In addition to ice cream in a waffle cup, you could buy chocolate and creme brulee for 19 kopecks.
Eskimo is next. There were several types of this Eskimo. The simplest is milk on a stick, rather tasteless, but cheap. The package was 50 grams and cost 11 kopecks.

Remember?

If not tastier, then more interesting was popsicle in yellow icing. For an amateur taste - but certainly brighter. It cost 16-18 kopecks. And the most delicious was in chocolate icing. It was often called "Leningradskoe", cost 22 kopecks and was really good. It melted quickly, but the chocolate did not break.

Similar to what we ate

From the rest, I remember well the briquette, where there was milk ice cream between 2 waffles. Such a briquette cost 13 kopecks. There, on the packaging, geese-swans were drawn.

Britketik

But I vaguely remember the sugar tube. It cost 15 kopecks, it could only be bought in Leningrad and it was in short supply.
I don’t remember “Gourmet”, “Chestnut”, “Golden Bomb” at all. Either it didn't, or I just didn't get it.
It seems like a small selection of ice cream, and it certainly cannot be compared with the current one. But you know, we somehow had enough. And in the second half of the 80s, I moved to sunny Chita for a while, and for me this short assortment line seemed to be absolutely wonderful. Do you know why? Because there was almost no ice cream in the city. Sold only in 2 cafes (and expensive). And by weight - it was something with something))

And they demanded it!

Imagine a cellophane bag, only one and a half kilograms (no more and no less) filled with frozen and frozen SOMETHING, which was proudly called "Dairy Ice Cream" in the price tag)) Moreover, the taste was archaic - inedible powdered milk was covered with sugar and butter and voila ... .. Brrrrr.
I remember that one of the brightest holidays was when they were able to give me a box of ice cream from Moscow near NG and DR. Real - not a Chita surrogate It was a feast))

Dry ice

Concluding the topic of ice cream, I cannot but recall how this very product was stored. Now it's easy - put a generator, and that's it. And then they used huge blocks of dry ice, which did not keep the cold very much in the heat, and most importantly, it was a great achievement to get ice cream that was not rumpled and not deformed.

Chewing gum and stuff for chewing

I don’t know what this is connected with, but in the mid-80s, the presence of chewing gum significantly influenced the status in the children's environment
There was really no variety. Chewing gum of 4 modifications was basic and universally distributed: orange, strawberry, mint and coffee flavor. Crimson could also be found much less frequently.

This is approximately

It consisted of a kidney and 5 plates wrapped in wax paper or foil (like today's wrigleys juicy fruit). Such chewing gum lost its taste after 5 minutes (Orange was felt a little more in the mouth), and with long chewing it fell apart.

Such....

It had nothing to do with modern chewing gum, and let's be honest, it was disgusting. Often, in order to “throw fingers” and show off, the kid put a piece of colored pencil lead into the chewing gum and tried to convince the others that since the “chew”, let’s say, is purple, it is definitely imported.

Sort of ....

But since the stylus stained not only chewing gum, but also the tongue, such a “pontorez” was quickly exposed

Or like this

The product was not cheap - as much as 50 kopecks, and despite its inelasticity and rapid destruction, they tried to stretch such chewing gum for several days.
In addition to the above, I remember the pioneer of all Soviet chewing gum - "Well, you wait" for 15 kopecks. I remember chewing this one, but I don't remember the taste at all.

Wait for it

Baltic chewing gum deserves special mention. In Soviet times, everything there was of the best quality. And especially the products of the Estonian factory "Kalev". In Estonia, some varieties of chewing gum were made not with plates, but with pads, and they were very much appreciated only for their shape and always ordered if someone went to the Estonian SSR)) For some reason we were convinced that Kalev pads were soaked in Coca-Cola and they have a special taste. However, the quality was really much higher.

Kalevskie pads were in such a package

I vacationed in Western Ukraine in the summer, and lived in the family of a military man and talked with peers from military families whose parents had previously served in Hungary, the GDR and Poland, and therefore I could often see other types of chewing gum. Round Gdrov chewing gums designed in the form of a soccer ball, or as colored balls in a transparent pack, which for some reason we called “cowboy balls”.

cowboy balls

They were brighter and tastier than ours. Well, the first chewing gums with inserts enjoyed special love. Turkish bestsellers like Turbo, Laser, Donald, Final, Love is... appeared later, and at the very beginning I only remember Czech Pedro and Polish Lölek and Bolek.

Inserts for chewing gum "Final"

I really loved the cartoon with their participation, and when they brought me a whole block of these chewing gums from Warsaw, I was very pleased.

Lelik and Bolek

Many had a happy childhood, but sometimes a little extreme. Let's not forget that in addition to purchased "chews" we chewed with pleasure the hardening juice of some trees, tar and even roofing material :-)))

)

Even today I want to remember such a delicious delicacy as straws and corn sticks. Moreover, I remember the division of cash by region. I could not find high-quality and tasty straws in Ukraine, but with sweet corn sticks I was in trouble in Leningrad.

Straw

And, by the way, if now there are a lot of those delicious straws, then with glazed corn sticks it’s tense. I remember there was such a square pack, on its side Dunno was also drawn on a balloon. Such a pack cost 28 kopecks and the sticks were fantastically tasty. Sweet, juicy, but light. I was ready to absorb tons of them, and the only problem was to wash my sweet hands after them. And it was also inconvenient to read books - fingers are sweet, sticky - you can’t turn the page)) Honestly, I still miss these sticks.

Similar... but not the same.

Candy, etc.

Naturally, such a variety of forms and content as it is now among the heterogeneous sugar or chocolate products united under the name derived from the Latin word "made" in the mid-80s was not. And by the end of this era, sweets, for various reasons, were classified as a scarce product. But there is still something to remember. Shall we try? ) As always, I will read your memoirs with pleasure, and some other varieties of sweets that I forgot, missed or simply did not list.

Variety of baby wraps

As far as I remember, the most accessible and cheap in those days was the so-called dragee. Multi-colored round sweets of several types. For 1 ruble 10 kopecks, you could buy a whole kilogram of multi-colored dragees called “peas”. An alternative was one-color strawberry or cherry. It was delicious, but it was necessary to take into account the freshness of the product, because .... At one time, in the late 80s, in the glorious city of Chita, a dragee was sold, which could be classified by the Hague Convention as a weapon of mass destruction, since in order to dissolve them in your mouth, you had to have salivation from the Alien, jaws from the Nibbler and patience from the Little Buddha. I don’t know how many years before they hit the counter they spent in the bins of their homeland, but these sweets were really reinforced concrete. For the sake of experiment, we dropped them onto the asphalt from the balcony. Well, so - they shattered to smithereens only from the 4th floor and above

polka dots

A slightly more expensive variety of "peas" was a large dragee with a softer shell and with sugar on it. I personally remember why lemon. When they were fresh - a very tasty thing. They cost more - somewhere in the region of 1 ruble 30 kopecks - 1 ruble 40 kopecks.

Dragee "lemons"

Well, the most expensive and desirable were either dragees with peanuts - the domestic version of M & M s, or the so-called "sea pebbles" - raisins in glaze. I loved the latter very much. They cost about 1 ruble 70 kopecks per kilo.

"Sea pebbles"

An alternative to dragees for cheapness and goodness were the so-called pads. There was various jams under the caramel shell. Delicious, by the way. And they were inexpensive - somewhere around 1 ruble 30 kopecks. After the adoption of the “semi-dry law”, they instantly disappeared from store shelves, and moved into the category of an acute shortage. The reason for the post - cheapness and quality allowed them to become a bestseller of raw materials for the production of moonshine. And since everyone started to “drive” (at least in Ukraine), it became problematic to find them for food.

"Cool" pads

Ruble eighty - this was the lowest limit, the purchase of a kilogram of numerous caramels, which, perhaps, were the most common type of sweets in the USSR. Not all of them were to my liking. I loved the ones with delicious jam under the caramel shell. "Strawberry with cream" or "Plum", for example. But some “Cancer necks”, “Baltika” or “Snowball” did not cause any emotions in me. And I also remember Cherry caramel, which cost some prohibitive money (either 4 or 5 rubles per kilo), but it was delicious.

Caramel wrap "Plum"

Although my favorite variety in this segment has always been (and perhaps there is) caramels called Lemons. True, they almost played a fatal role in my life. Since childhood, I have been a big sweet tooth, and I have become addicted, going to bed, to pull out a couple of sweets with me, throwing them under the pillow and savoring their taste, falling asleep. And here, apparently, he fell asleep too early and the candy got into the wrong throat. In general, I began to suffocate and be late for a minute or two, my parents, who literally shook my legs upside down, pulled out of me this most unfortunate "lemon", then I would not write these lines now And nevertheless I love "lemons" to this day, although I gnaw them furiously - like all caramels Apparently a defensive reaction

Those Lemons

Well, my favorite among this type of sweets were lollipops, or, more correctly, “candy caramel”. This cheap, but practical and tasty product, I still use with great pleasure. In Soviet times, No. 1 was “Vzletnye”, which were not only distributed on board Aeroflot liners, but were also on free sale. Such lollipops cost somewhere around 2.30-2.50. And my love for them was determined by several circumstances. Firstly, the Tu-154 was depicted on the wrapper, and from an early age I was drawn to aviation. Secondly, a friend of my grandmother, who constantly regaled me with them, told me that these are real aviation sweets and all pilots love them))) Well, and thirdly, they really were delicious. With sour. I love those. More than just sweet candy like Duchess.

Modern version of children's bestseller

However, take-offs were not always in the store, but almost everywhere you could buy Mints in a blue wrapper. Still practically everywhere there was a "barberry". But unlike modern ones, with sourness, that “barberry” was almost always sweet.

Remember these fanfictions?

I really liked caramel "Start". Remember lollipops in the form of pucks (well, or large tablets). It was very tasty.
And of course, a wonderful montpensier in a round tin can.

Box from monpasier...

They were miniature, of different colors, shapes and tastes. The only trouble is that most often they stuck together and it was necessary to tear off a separate “monpasy” with the use of brute physical force. But vkuuusno) Such a tin cost about 20 rubles and was used very actively in the subsidiary farm.

The candies themselves

And we were all probably drawn to buy poisonous cockerels on sticks for 15-20 kopecks, which were sold by gypsies in the markets. Parents, of course, did not buy them for us, saying that they were made in unsanitary conditions. But forbidden fruit is known to be sweet, right? )) And there were also sweet sticks - beautiful, but strange in taste

Cockerel from gypsies (c) ))

And a couple of times from Poland, Hungary and the GDR they brought me real handmade candy caramel, which, in addition to taste, also looked great. It was fun!

Rarely has such beauty

And we will complete today's story with a memory of "toffees" - or fondant mass boiled from condensed milk or molasses. The name came up with them at the beginning of the 20th century by the French confectioner Morna, who works in St. Petersburg, who for some reason decided that the final product is very similar to iris petals. Why he chose to do so is difficult to understand.

Kitty Kitty.

All toffees could be divided into several subspecies. The most common was the so-called viscous iris, which never was. Representatives of this subspecies were the brands "Kis-Kis" and "Tuzik". The former were usually steel and an attempt to chew was worth broken teeth and torn fillings, while the latter were too soft and disintegrated on the teeth immediately.

They are the most

More pleasant was the "Golden Key", which can be attributed to the cast semi-hard iris.

Well, that was

Well, the queen of toffee was, of course, "Dairy Cows" - soft sweets with condensed milk inside.
I also remember that toffees were sold in large pieces by weight. However, they did not enjoy special love.

Hello dear!
Last time we started a story about sweets with you: I propose to continue

Sweets for the most spoiled boys and girls (pay attention to the shape of the roof of the hut))))

The lower bar for the price of chocolates also began with an amount of 1 ruble 80 kopecks. From 1.80 to 3.80 you could buy chocolate with "white" filling. I never loved them. All sorts of "Swallows", "Apples", "White Acacia", "Mask". The only exception, perhaps, was the Citron. The others in this category I didn't like. The same goes for Natalka-Poltavka, Stolichnye... Just as I didn't like the more expensive grillage.

Wrapper option "Swallows"

But sweets with dark filling adored
"Kara-Kum", for example, although it was very expensive - 5 rubles per kg. Well, or "Squirrel".

Numerous variations of "Kara-Kum"

Sweets with jelly "Jelly", "Aronia chokeberry" or "Southern Night" were very pleasant too.
But the main delicacy of childhood and universal adoration are waffle-based sweets. They were small in shape, such as "Pineapple", "Our Mark", "Clumsy Bear", "Tuzik" medium - "Little Red Riding Hood" and large - "Gulliver" and "Bear in the North". The latter are my sweet and tender childhood memories. Especially how they let me pick up sweets in the store ... Mother let me into the warehouse, and knowing that I was a modest child, I wouldn’t take much. And I typed directly from the boxes. Such happiness was)) Sweets were not cheap - 4 rubles also cost somewhere.

One of the greatest joys of childhood

Well, the most expensive, as far as I remember, were truffles. They were often sold in gift boxes and cost from 7 to 11 rubles. Therefore, I set up their home production - and still sometimes indulge)))
True, there was an option and simpler - "Golden Field" was called. There, together with cocoa, the truffle was sprinkled with waffle crumbs. Such sweets cost 6 rubles and were quite loved.

Sweets "Zolotaya Niva"

Since we are talking about candies in boxes, it is worth noting that they have always been a success. An ideal gift is a bottle of wine or Soviet champagne and a box of chocolates. They cost, depending on the brand, from 3 to 12 rubles. Particularly popular with us in Leningrad, used Assorted factory them. Krupskaya. I especially liked it with buttercream inside. And so they were in short supply.

Like that...

Another candy that I really liked comes from Ukraine. Either the Vinnitsa factory, or the famous Lviv "Svitoch" is considered the inventor of the "Strela" sweets. But I know for sure that for the first time they appeared at the Lutsk candy factory and getting a pack of arrows as a child was a great holiday for me))) Very tasty sweets.

"Arrow"

By the way, I recently saw a glimpse of their Belarusian production - you have to try - maybe tasty
Speaking of "Assorted" from the factory named after N.K. Krupskaya, we cannot pass by bars with chocolate or creamy milk filling. The price was 55 kopecks, and it was far from the cheapest option.

SUBZH

Chocolate medals cost the least - 10-15 kopecks. The smallest 20 gram chocolate cost 20 kopecks. Pushkin's Tales, for example.

"Pushkin's Tales"

The legendary "Alenka" (80 kopecks per 80 grams) had a lower price among the large chocolates. Everything else was noticeably more expensive. "Children's" and "Merry Fellows" - 1.20, "Troika" - 1.30. "Aurora" went for 1 ruble 50 kopecks, and "Special" - 2 rubles. The most expensive was the "Golden Label" - somewhere around 2.50.

Remember the incomparable taste of cream fudge, theatrical caramels and milkshake? Now manufacturers produce many analogues of our favorite Soviet products, but their taste is completely different, alas. After all, childhood memories are the most vivid and unforgettable. You can't confuse them with anything.

MONTPENSIER

Small, fragrant, they could be chewed by handfuls, with difficulty opening their teeth. And it doesn’t matter that they all hopelessly stuck together in a box in a huge lump, most importantly, delicious and sweet! Well, the jars, of course, were later used on the farm, and how! What dad didn't have a tin can full of rusty nails and bolts? The name of the sweets, by the way, comes from the name of the Duchess of Montpensier from the novels of Dumas.

LEMON SLICES

Many did this: first they ate the top sweet rim (like the peel of an orange or lemon slice), and only then the marmalade itself. Jars from under the slices were also actively used in everyday life.

CARAMEL "SNOW"

This candy was first of all carefully selected from a New Year's gift. It was either postponed “for later”, or eaten right away, but in any case it was the most beloved. And they loved Snezhok for its unique taste and incomparable feeling of something pleasantly pungent and similar to snowflakes melting in your mouth. But the toffee "Kis Kis" was not a favorite among other New Year's sweets. Too hard and hard, he deservedly received the name "sealer".

CREAMY FENDER AND PAT

Delicate, soft, barrel-shaped: it was sold in cardboard boxes, but so rare that it was almost impossible to get it. In similar boxes they also sold fragrant multi-colored marmalade “Pat”, sprinkled with sugar and so delicious!

TEA STRAW

Despite the name, it was often washed down with milk, not tea, or tea with milk. Now some factories also produce tea straws, but the Soviet one was still better.

ASCORBINCA

Sold only in pharmacies. Large sweet tablets of ascorbic acid gradually dissolved behind the cheek, and strict parents ensured that no more than two ascorbic acid was eaten per day. Wherever there, the whole package went at once.

Revit yellow dragees, sweet on the outside and unexpectedly sour on the inside, were also very popular. They were much cheaper than candy.

CHEWING GUM

In the 80s, chewing gum was kept like the apple of an eye. They chewed for several days, until it began to disintegrate in the mouth, and they also gave their neighbors a try. And, although counselors and teachers told that insidious foreigners hide blades in chewing gum, and forced them to immediately spit out “this muck”, the schoolchildren were still madly happy about any opportunity to get this trophy.

The most affordable were Soviet chewing gums: Orange, Strawberry, Raspberry, Mint and Coffee. The latter was the least popular. The taste of chewing gum disappeared after about 5 minutes, but they chewed longer than the Baltic ones. Czech "Pedro" - you could win in "Luna Park"

Donald Duck chewing gums were valued most for their unique, foreign taste, the ability to inflate huge bubbles and the magnificent liners, passionately collected by many pioneers. They could be knocked out at breaks and even redeemed from a wealthy owner. Particularly gamblers were caught and parents were called to school.

SODA

There were soda machines near the subway and train stations. A glass of sweet soda cost 3 kopecks, and a simple mineral water - 1 kopeck. It was not tasty without sweet syrup, so the glass was not filled completely, but the water was drained to make it sweeter. All parents, without exception, strictly forbade drinking soda from vending machines, which is why vending machines so attracted children and were a constant cause for public scandals. How many times have poor parents had to literally drag a crying child away from this “terrible infection” by the hands. Well, the most prudent ones carried collapsible plastic cups with them so as not to drink from common glasses.

CRISPY MOSCOW POTATOES

The legendary product of the Colossus association for 10 kopecks with a girl on the package and three horses is another joy of childhood. It was sold mainly in bakeries and often replaced lunch from the canteen for schoolchildren.

The abundance of overseas sweets does not negate our love for desserts from childhood.

Are you nostalgic for bird's milk, chocolate sausage, potatoes, sour cream, Kiev cake, honey cake or Napoleon and dream of learning how to cook Soviet desserts yourself?

10 recipes for the most popular GOST pastries and cakes

bird's milk

Ingredients needed to make bird's milk:

Butter - 150 g
Condensed milk - 150 g
Vanilla extract - 2 g
Sugar - 300 g
Powdered sugar - 150 g
Flour - 210 g
Agar - 7 g
Water - 200 g
Yolk - 105 g
Protein - 160 g
Lemon juice - 10 g
Molasses - 200 g
Chocolate black - 100 g
Butter - 30 g

Bird's milk recipe:

Cream. Separately beat butter, vanilla extract and condensed milk. Mix everything together.
Separately, prepare the cake: Beat the butter with powdered sugar. Then add the yolk, water and flour. Bake at 180 degrees for 10 minutes.
Chocolate glaze. Melt butter and chocolate. Mix thoroughly.
Souffle. Soak the agar in a little water.
Add water, molasses and sugar. Boil the sugar syrup to 118 degrees to brew the protein.
Whisk egg white with lemon juice. Boil protein with sugar syrup. Let cool a little. Add the finished cream and put the soufflé in the form on the cake.
Cool down. Glaze. Take out of the mold.

chocolate sausage

Ingredients needed to make Chocolate Sausage:

Butter - 170 g
Powdered sugar - 130 g
Cocoa - 40 g
Condensed milk - 90 g
Wheat flour - 100 g
Almonds - 70 g
Shortbread cookies - 130 g

Chocolate sausage recipe:

Grind the almonds with a blender into crumbs. Roll out the cookies with a rolling pin. Mix flour with ground almonds and cookies.
Place butter at room temperature, icing sugar, condensed milk, cocoa in a mixer bowl and beat until smooth and fluffy. Pour dry ingredients into the cream, mix.
Divide the finished chocolate mass in half (365 g each). Put on cling film, wrap, twist the sausage. Put in the freezer for 2 hours.
Release the sausage blank from the film and cut into pieces.

Cookies "Nutlet"

Ingredients needed to make Peanut Butter Cookies:

Butter 82.5% - 325 g
Chicken egg - 2 pcs
Salt - 5 g
Powdered sugar - 205 g
Premium flour - 575 g
Condensed milk - 1 bank
Pecans - per serving 3 pcs

Cookies Nuts recipe:

Beat the egg with sugar until white. Separately beat butter with flour. Mix gently and add the rest of the ingredients.
Mix everything in a mixer at low speed, about 5 minutes. Place the dough in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
Then roll it out to a thickness of 3 mm, put it in a mold and bake for 15 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees.
Separately put condensed milk to cook for 6 hours. Open the cooled condensed milk, put in each half of the nuts, add a pecan (1 piece).
Glue the two halves of the nut. Serve with real walnuts.

Cake "Potato"

Ingredients needed to make Potato Cake:

Chicken egg - 125 g
Sugar - 75 g
Wheat flour - 63 g
Starch - 12 g

For cream:

Butter - 175 g
Powdered sugar - 90 g
Condensed milk - 60 g
Cognac - 10 g

For sprinkling:

Cocoa - 40 g
Powdered sugar - 40 g

How to make potato pie:

Prepare a biscuit. Divide the processed eggs into yolks and whites. Separately, beat the yolks with sugar (75 g) and whites with sugar (75 g).
Mix wheat flour and starch. Add flour with starch to the yolks, mix until smooth.
Gently fold in the beaten egg whites in two additions. Cover a baking sheet with baking paper. Pour batter onto baking sheet and flatten to 1cm thickness.
Bake at 170°C until golden brown (10-15 minutes). Remove from the pan, cool, grind in a blender.
Place butter at room temperature, powdered sugar, condensed milk in a mixer bowl and beat until smooth and fluffy.
Set aside part of the cream (45 g) in a cornet (for antennae). Add cognac, mix until smooth.
Combine biscuit crumbs with cream. Divide the mass into portions of 50 g, mold blanks in the shape of potatoes.
Mix cocoa with powdered sugar.
Roll the blanks in a sprinkling, put on a plate, deposit the antennae from the cornet.

Cake "Smetannik"

Ingredients needed to make Sour Cream Cake:

Wheat flour - 200 g
Eggs - 6 pcs
Sugar - 200 g
Baking powder for dough - 8 g
Vanillin - 3 g
Powdered sugar - 180 g
Sour cream (30%) - 1175 g
Strawberries - 66 g
Strawberry syrup - 20 ml

Cake Smetannik recipe:

Put the eggs and sugar into the mixer bowl. Beat with a whisk at high speeds until a homogeneous lush and thick foam.
Sift flour and mix with baking powder and vanilla.
Add the sifted flour in 2 passes to the eggs with sugar, gently mixing with a silicone spatula (so as not to settle) until a homogeneous mass without lumps.
Pour the resulting mass into a round shape, smooth with a spatula and bake for 40 minutes in an oven preheated to 180 degrees. Let cool.
Prepare cream. Add sour cream to the mixer bowl and, adding powdered sugar, beat until fluffy.
Using a culinary ring (d = 6.5 cm), cut out 9 cylindrical cakes 4 cm high from the baked dough.
Then, cut off the top and bottom crusts from each cut out circle, and cut the biscuit lengthwise into 3 plates.
Cut strawberries (1/3 part) into small cubes 0.2 x 0.2 cm and mix with syrup. Cut the remaining berries into thin slices 0.1-0.2 cm thick.
Each portion is designed like this. Take 3 plates of biscuit. Put strawberries with syrup on 1 cake, then a layer of cream. Cover with a second cake, again strawberries with syrup and cream.
Coat the top cake with cream, smooth the surface and decorate with strawberry slices.
Before use, put portions in the refrigerator for 4 hours so that the cakes are soaked with cream.

Napoleon cake"

Ingredients needed to cook Napoleon:

Yeast-free puff pastry - 600 g
Milk - 415 ml
Sugar - 140 g
Vanilla pod (can be replaced with vanillin) - 5 g
Yolks - 5 pcs
Flour - 50 g
Cream (33%) - 300 ml

Cake Napoleon recipe:

Roll out the dough into a thin layer and cut into 5 identical squares.
Put the dough on a baking sheet and pierce with a fork. Bake the cakes in the oven, heated to 190 degrees, for 10-12 minutes.
Bake the dough scraps too and finely crumble (for example, using a rolling pin).
Mix milk and 70 g of sugar, add vanilla and bring to a boil.
Grind the yolks with the remaining sugar, add flour, mix.
Pour the yolk mixture into the hot sweet milk with vanilla. Whisk.
Whip cream and fold into custard. Mix.
Assemble a five-layer cake, spreading it with cream.
Coat the top layer and sides with cream and sprinkle with crumbs of dough.

Baba

Ingredients needed to make Rum Baba:

Yeast - 25 g
Water t 30 - 150 ml
Flour - 500 g
Sugar - 25 g
Salt - 10 g
Eggs - 3 pcs
Butter - 150 g
Water - 80 g
Rum - 20 g
Sugar - 100 g
Lemon peel - 5 g
Orange peel - 5 g
Protein - 50 g
Sugar - 200 g

Rum baba recipe:

Prepare steam. Combine yeast, water t 30 ° and flour and put in a warm place for 30 minutes.
Put sugar, salt, eggs and 300 g of flour into a mixer. Knead the dough, at the end add melted butter 0.150 (if there is no mixer, beat by hand).
You can also add pre-soaked and squeezed raisins, dried apricots or candied fruits.
Place the finished dough for 1 hour in a warm place. Divide into 250 gram molds and let stand for another 30 minutes. Bake at t 180 ° for 20 minutes.
Soak hot women in syrup and cover with icing. Beat the lemon juice in a mixer until white. Glaze pastries and sprinkle with millet.
Another flavor nuance: you can put downed creamy, custard or curd cream through a syringe inside the woman, then it will be even tastier.

Wafer rolls

Ingredients needed to make wafer rolls

Egg - 8 pcs
Sugar - 280 g
Butter - 560 g
Flour - 560 g

Custard:

Chicken egg - 8 pcs
Sugar - 160 g
Flour - 100 g
Milk - 500 ml
Butter - 100 g
Dark chocolate - 100 g
Cream boiled condensed milk:
Butter - 250 g
Boiled condensed milk - 860 g

Wafer rolls recipe:

Beat eggs with sugar, add melted butter. Add flour and beat until smooth.
In a medium saucepan bring milk to a boil. Without cooling, add in small portions to the egg mixture, constantly whisking with a whisk.
Transfer the mixture to a clean saucepan and place over high heat. Cook, stirring constantly, until mixture begins to bubble and thicken.
Remove the mixture from the stove and 1 tbsp. Add butter, stirring well after each.
Add finely chopped chocolate. Stir until dissolved and a homogeneous mass is obtained.
Transfer the cream to a bowl and cover the surface with cling film so that the cream does not weather. Cool down completely. Fill waffle cones with cream. Decorate.
Butter at room temperature, slightly melted, beat with boiled condensed milk until a homogeneous mass is obtained, briefly put in the refrigerator to harden, and then fill the waffle cones.

Dessert "Kiev" in a glass

Cream Ingredients:

Cream 35% - 500 g
Powdered sugar - 150 g

Chocolate cream:

Cream in Kiev - 200 g
Cocoa powder - 20 g

Meringue:

Fried hazelnuts - 170 g
Sugar - 235 g
Flour - 40 g
Protein - 200 g
Vanilla extract - 1 g
Hazelnut - 800 g
Sugar - 350 g

How to make dessert:

Cream in Kiev. Whip all the ingredients until a pattern appears.
Korzhi. First chop the nuts. Beat the protein, add sugar in parts, beat until the beak, then add the hazelnuts.
Bake at 130 degrees for 40 minutes.
Chocolate cream. Take the basic butter cream at Kievsky and add cocoa powder to it.
First put meringue in a glass, cream on top, and so 5 times, the final layer is chocolate cream and hazelnuts in caramel.

Honey cake"

Ingredients needed to make Honey Cake:

Honeycombs - 10 g
Cakes - 9 pcs
Honey - 180 g
Butter - 120 g
Sugar - 180 g
Salt - 1 g
Vanilla - 1 g
Soda - 10 g
Egg - 2 pcs
Flour - 500 g
Water - 100 g

Cream for honey cake:

Cream 35% - 500 g
Sour cream - 500 g
Sugar - 300 g

Honey cake recipe:

Pour vanilla, honey, butter, sugar, salt into a saucepan, add water and bring to a boil, then add soda and remove from the stove, leave for 30 minutes at room temperature, do not stir, add the egg and flour.
Divide everything into 9 cakes, roll out the cakes and bake at a temperature of 180 degrees until golden brown.
Whip cream, add sugar and sour cream. Mix, spread 8 cakes, assemble the cake, cover with cling film and refrigerate for 3-4 hours.
Make crumbs from 1 remaining cake, for this, grind it in a coffee grinder or blender. Sprinkle honey cake and decorate it with honeycombs.

Bon Appetit!

Recently, while walking through one of the cities, I stumbled upon a museum of Soviet sweets and, of course, could not pass by. Sweets in childhood loved, I think, everyone. Here they have collected a large collection that will not leave many indifferent.
Let's remember what we enjoyed in childhood.

2. I confess that I did not recognize many sweets and chocolates. Perhaps they are much older than me, or these confectionery products were rare, or maybe I just forgot already, because so many years have passed.
But Alyonka chocolate, I remember, has always been there.

3. Olenka chocolate was produced in Ukraine.

4. There were many confectionery factories in Ukraine.

5. Someone was collecting wrappers from Childish chocolate.

6. There was also a place for unsightly toys at the present time.

7. The chocolates in the boxes were very nicely decorated. Please note that in a box of sweets there were 400 grams and even more, and not 150-200 as it is now.

8. Colorful candy boxes were used to store small things.

9. Sports theme.

10. Beauty-Moscow. The label suggests that it was a butter cookie. Prices were then printed on labels, in all stores and in different cities they were the same.