Meaning of vzvar | Babel Free

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A cold Russian beverage made from boiled fruits (typically fresh or dried).

uncountable

Examples

“His wife prepared the traditional Russian Christmas dishes: kutya, made of wheat and honey; vzvar, compote of dried fruit, and kavrishka, also a fruit dish.”

“In this recipe from her book, Darra Goldstein writes that trendy restaurants claim to have discovered onion jam but the Russians have known it for centuries as vzvar, a thick, sweet-and-sour vegetable comfit.”

“She remembers eating herring and drinking vodka and preparing such holiday foods as kutia, made from a^([sic]) wheat berries or rice, honey, raisins and poppy seeds, and vzvar, a compote of dried fruit.”

“According to GOST 52409–2005, national nonalcoholic beverages include kvass, mors, sbiten, voditsa, and vzvar (Zavorohina 2014; Kudryasheva 2014).”

“You’ll see pools of kefir, sbiten, kvass, or vzvar in cavities of rocks, borscht and ukha swelling up in tree stumps, stuffed blintzes and pierogi mushrooming in flower clusters or out of tree bark or hanging from leaves, and cream-covered smetannik adorning trees like snow.”

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