Toasting buckwheat groats gives them a nice nutty flavour. Spread them in a single layer in a dry skillet over medium-high heat and keep them moving until they're golden brown and fragrant. They can be eaten dry or cooked as kasha or kulesh. Buckwheat is high in proteins and amino acids too.
If you want to be lazy about it, you can get the buckwheat pre-toasted from the supermarket. It's usually in the ethnic or kosher section and sold as "Kasha". For the same consistency as the groats you used, I believe you'd want the one labeled "whole". I love that stuff.
You want to do this with any grain you're using to make porridge, in practice. You can do this with the equivalent flours too - you just have to be extra careful and toss often to avoid burning.
Hardship is an understatement when it came to food in the second world war. I had a great uncle that was Hitler Youth, in the late summer and fall they ate a stew made from onions, peppers and tomatoes. In the winter they ate a stew made with potatoes, onions and egg noodles. Truth be told both of them are not bad tasting, I still make both of them a few times a year.
um per day might be pushing it , maybe a few days a week . I knew a red army WWII veteran he got one can of spam in 3 months and kept the can as a cup and the can bottom polished up for a shaving mirror
In WW2, the US Lend-Lease program to the USSR provided, among other things, approx. 5 million tons of rations for Soviet troops--especially the canned pork or "tushonka".
And wheat. And large reliable trucks without which the Red Armys rapid advances would not have been as feasible. Its entirely understandable why Russians don't want to acknowledge any of that...but it IS undeniable
There was a Russian advance during The Winter War that was halted after the Russians raided the Finns field kitchen and started eating their stew and sausages. Those Russians were later killed by the same Finns who came back after nightfall and ambushed the camp. Some of the Russians still had food in their mouths when they died. Just goes to show how terrible the Red Army truly was that they were willing to stop fighting and die fighting over a pot of hot stew and cured sausages
@@herbzom5203 Нет, засады не было. Отряд русских заблудился и вышел в место где располагались финские подразделения тылового обеспечения. Которые как раз готовили в полевых кухнях финский сосисочный суп. Русские к тому времени уже несколько дней не ели вообще никакой еды, они атаковали и пользуясь внезапностью прогнали финнов. А сами сели и начали есть финскую пищу. Финнские солдаты тем временем опомнились и контратаковали, разгромив русских, которые продолжали сидеть возле полевых кухонь и есть. В истории Зимней войны это осталось как "сосисочная война".
Start off with about an inch of water over your ingredients. You won't have to tend it as much and will not normally have to add more water. Those peas and grains are going to soak up alot of water.
Ну, вообще-то кулеш достаточно типичен был всегда для нашего походно-боевого питания. В Первой мировой - точно. Наверняка и Великую Отечественную тоже захватил. Гречка с тушёнкой да, постепенно стала более распространена.
Taking into account the fact that there was a famine in Stalingrad, not the same, of course, as in Leningrad, where people even ate all the sparrows, ate grass, and there were even acts of cannibalism of dead people, such a diet for a person, and especially for a morally and physically exhausted soldier, was mana from heaven...
To survive Mansur would have supplemented his loaf and stew with a ton of other things. He would have needed 2500-5000 calories a day on average. And he survived.
Yeah... they didn't get that. Mansur went 10 days without eating at all at one point. The entire battalion (or what was left of it) all looked like walking skeletons. They tried to eat horse fodder, but it didn't go well.
I wouldn't survive on the Australian field rations from WWI and WWII. One can of corned beef and 5 army biscuits per day plus a pound of black tea per week.
Your kidding!! any Australian takeaway is better than that basic food.. what Australian takeaway did you have to make you say that comment?? Pizza, Fish chips, yiros, meat pies, chicko rolls,dim sims, all are fantastic Australian takeaway foods!!
Man who knew the Germans ate that much better than the Soviets? Hearty but would get old fast if repetitive like you said and also missing a lot of micro and phytonutrients so extremely undernourished too as you said.
Call me weird but a bowl of that with a little dark rye bread, some watery cabbage soup, a cup of tea, and I'd be good for the day even now. Add a beet or a small piece of goat once a week, and I'll defend the Red October tractor plant all day long.
Let's face it in a bad situation and your hungry you are going to be grateful. I was in the first Gulf war and at the end of the day those nasty MREs were still welcome. Have a good one and love your videos
yeah, after hard day in the field it is quite acceptable, after longer taste... become nearly irrelevant. I remember a exercise where we where simulating being separated from main body and had to go cross rough terain (roads patrolled by "enemy"), after days evading wigh only bare minimum gear, (gun, ammo, water, and what we normally had in vest and clothes) the coke and ration we where handed at end was almost a religious experience.
So its a stew. Like Cholent, a stew cooked overnight for the Shabbos lunch meal, every family has its own recipe. Some recipes varied weekly depending on what was available to cook.
Compared to the Allies' supply system the Eastern Front was a whole other animal. I read a book on the German light infantry divisions of World War 2 (about 12,000-14,000 soldiers). The division relied heavily on horse drawn carts so they only had around 12 trucks and of these half were for the bakery and butcher companies. The trucks provided the power to grind the grain for flour, smoke and cure their own sausages and, so long as they could access grain and animals to butcher, the division was largely self sufficient for their food needs. Rye bread, sausage and cabbage soup, when fresh vegetables were available, was what the Germans lived on so slightly better off than the Russians but not by much.
Кулеш pronounced with the stress on the E. KulEsh. Based on the hungarian word for millet, "köles", supposedly. Basic kulesh would be boiling rough grain, like millet, or whats available and adding the cheapest meat that lasts long without refrigeration in the field - salo, or pork lard, finely chopped. Water would get boiled out and youd have to stir the pork fat to essentially bake the kasha in. Adding veggies or at least onions would be ideal, but hardly available to ranks below high officer in WW2. Also, I'm sure jews and muslims ate pork rations to stave off starvation, but I seriously doubt they'd thanked god for that pork.
This stuff looks like something I might fix at home, only more complex for ingredients - meat, (usually chicken) chopped onion, mixed veggies, and either rice or diced potatoes.
Все хорошо, но про Сталина и убитых им крестьян и прочую ерунду, лучше было помолчать, раз не знаешь. История СССР она не простая, с такими изгибами, что лучше говори про еду и не лезь куда не понимаешь.
Russia was so impoverished during the war, more likely they would have been issued lard. The US sent over a lot of lard, along with salt pork. One of the weird things I found out as a kid was, a lot of folk that grew up leading into WWII ate slab lard sandwiches. Often the bread was fried in lard, and once it was cool, they would cut off a thick slab of lard and eat just that. I know its weird but that was my grandmothers favorite sandwich, more so than a fried peanut butter, marshmallow fluff and banana sandwich fried in lard.
Assuming that you did not go 100% authentic and use rotten potatoes, carrots, onions, moldy grains and rancid fat…I predict a 100% chance that your Kulash was better than what the typical Red Army soldier ate. That said-your meal doesn’t sound that bad. Definitely plain, and would probably have more flavor if you added mushrooms and some sauerkraut. My grandma made a version of kulash like yours, but she toasted the grains first and included mushrooms, beets, and sauerkraut. That definitely had more flavor than salt and pepper.
when America was to help the USSR tons upon tons of SPAM was sent it was given only to tank commanders and top-ranking fighting units and the NKVD of course the USSR communists will admit it but facts are coming out to them this was eating in luxury and they also picked up the Germans rations but for the rest it was totally rubbish food that they had
Не очень понял отсылку к мусульманам. Само блюдо не мусульманское. Да и сам Сталин грузин, а грузины христиане. Тем более Сталин учился в духовной семинарии. На христианского священника.
Hey Friend, you make great content, but I've seen a bunch of videos of yours using AI images for the covers. Unfortunately going to be unsubscribing, best of luck, potentially consider moving away from this trend.
Bye now. Too bad that you’re willing to give up on content you called “great” because I’m not a super graphic designer. Maybe embrace this trend because half of the videos on RUclips are using ai voice.
@@MREScoutno offense but rather see stuff in crayon than AI. It adds no value. Just film yourself or the food if you can't search for valid historical photos or whatever. That said I was not moved to complain about this video. I will add to another's remark that you could have toasted the buckwheat first.
Toasting buckwheat groats gives them a nice nutty flavour. Spread them in a single layer in a dry skillet over medium-high heat and keep them moving until they're golden brown and fragrant. They can be eaten dry or cooked as kasha or kulesh. Buckwheat is high in proteins and amino acids too.
Going to have to try that next time.
If you want to be lazy about it, you can get the buckwheat pre-toasted from the supermarket. It's usually in the ethnic or kosher section and sold as "Kasha". For the same consistency as the groats you used, I believe you'd want the one labeled "whole". I love that stuff.
You want to do this with any grain you're using to make porridge, in practice. You can do this with the equivalent flours too - you just have to be extra careful and toss often to avoid burning.
Hardship is an understatement when it came to food in the second world war. I had a great uncle that was Hitler Youth, in the late summer and fall they ate a stew made from onions, peppers and tomatoes. In the winter they ate a stew made with potatoes, onions and egg noodles.
Truth be told both of them are not bad tasting, I still make both of them a few times a year.
Later in the war your average Russian ate a pound of spam per day. Lend Lease is part of how the Soviets survived the war.
When they opened the can ( of corned beef)they sarcastically said "we're opening the SECOND front"
um per day might be pushing it , maybe a few days a week . I knew a red army WWII veteran he got one can of spam in 3 months and kept the can as a cup and the can bottom polished up for a shaving mirror
They never paid back the loan.
They would of survived with out it but with more difficulty
@@schemil42Wastaken yes
In WW2, the US Lend-Lease program to the USSR provided, among other things, approx. 5 million tons of rations for Soviet troops--especially the canned pork or "tushonka".
lenningrad ate 3 times that daily my guy
The fictional food named “Tosh” was inspired by Tushonka.
And wheat. And large reliable trucks without which the Red Armys rapid advances would not have been as feasible. Its entirely understandable why Russians don't want to acknowledge any of that...but it IS undeniable
And “pashtiet” (not sure if I spell it right) is potted meat.
@@trooperdgb9722 if you see what % lend lease truck were making out of all Red Army trucks you would change your mind... or would you?
A full belly is a mental health tool in a high stress enviroment.
A full belly, a smoke and 200ml of vodka comrade.
There was a Russian advance during The Winter War that was halted after the Russians raided the Finns field kitchen and started eating their stew and sausages. Those Russians were later killed by the same Finns who came back after nightfall and ambushed the camp. Some of the Russians still had food in their mouths when they died.
Just goes to show how terrible the Red Army truly was that they were willing to stop fighting and die fighting over a pot of hot stew and cured sausages
More likely it was an ambush
@@herbzom5203 Нет, засады не было. Отряд русских заблудился и вышел в место где располагались финские подразделения тылового обеспечения. Которые как раз готовили в полевых кухнях финский сосисочный суп. Русские к тому времени уже несколько дней не ели вообще никакой еды, они атаковали и пользуясь внезапностью прогнали финнов. А сами сели и начали есть финскую пищу. Финнские солдаты тем временем опомнились и контратаковали, разгромив русских, которые продолжали сидеть возле полевых кухонь и есть.
В истории Зимней войны это осталось как "сосисочная война".
Start off with about an inch of water over your ingredients. You won't have to tend it as much and will not normally have to add more water. Those peas and grains are going to soak up alot of water.
I’ll try that next time.
You always get your hands-on some of the coolest rations.
Lol, I’m Russian and NEVER eat kulesh. Nor I ever read in WWII memoir about it. Usually buckwheat and canned beef.
Ну, вообще-то кулеш достаточно типичен был всегда для нашего походно-боевого питания.
В Первой мировой - точно. Наверняка и Великую Отечественную тоже захватил.
Гречка с тушёнкой да, постепенно стала более распространена.
@@alexshmeter1549 перловка с тушенкой, горох с тушенкой, пшено итд.
Keep water in your canteen cup on the fire to add in the Kulesh, shorter cook time.
You shoold do a video on that grass pudding shown in the movie A Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich.
Really enjoyed the history lesson and the review. Really good job!😊
Usually there are use millet for kulesh. Ather grains are used very seldom.
True. But considering feed my bird millet, I decided to go with something different.
American Spam was available sometimes.
" Thick but soft. Thick, hardy, warming" Sounds like you are describing a good woman there! 😁
We all hear what we want to hear. lol
Red Beans and Rice Didnt Miss Her!! ❤
weird random religious plug
WHERES THE CANTEEN FULL OF VODKA...
I lost it 10 years ago.
In with the other tools?
if you do not want to wait for an hour, you can use instant oatmeal.. and add a bit of cream and some meat..
i know it sounds odd but an aussie ww2 ration pack?
Taking into account the fact that there was a famine in Stalingrad, not the same, of course, as in Leningrad, where people even ate all the sparrows, ate grass, and there were even acts of cannibalism of dead people, such a diet for a person, and especially for a morally and physically exhausted soldier, was mana from heaven...
You should look up the sausage war in Finland. It cost the Soviets victory.
To survive Mansur would have supplemented his loaf and stew with a ton of other things. He would have needed 2500-5000 calories a day on average. And he survived.
Yeah... they didn't get that. Mansur went 10 days without eating at all at one point. The entire battalion (or what was left of it) all looked like walking skeletons. They tried to eat horse fodder, but it didn't go well.
They ate saw dust and sometimes people 😮
I wouldn't survive on the Australian field rations from WWI and WWII. One can of corned beef and 5 army biscuits per day plus a pound of black tea per week.
Interesting video, no negative reviews from me.
Facts….. ammo and weapons. As well.
The red army was poorly fed because soviet/russian logistics are the worst. Even to this day
Yes true but also didn’t help that they had no food… then lost the major food producing region of the ussr to the Germans.
Sounds so much like goulash but no meat
80 years later and this is still better than most Australian take away.
Your kidding!! any Australian takeaway is better than that basic food.. what Australian takeaway did you have to make you say that comment?? Pizza, Fish chips, yiros, meat pies, chicko rolls,dim sims, all are fantastic Australian takeaway foods!!
@@MrDredd1966 Bogans 🤣
First glance - sorry (my dictionary)
I remember reading a journal of a german girl who said russian fried a chicken with grease from vehicles.
I have heard that GAA is edible but I’m not willing to try it.
@@MREScoutBetter hope it is much as I got on my hands sometimes.
Forgot Spam....
Man who knew the Germans ate that much better than the Soviets? Hearty but would get old fast if repetitive like you said and also missing a lot of micro and phytonutrients so extremely undernourished too as you said.
my father was an atheist in a foxhole in korea
Is it just not a non-Hungarian form of goulash??
One hour!!!!!!!😊
Skip the bacon and its a thing for days of pennance
Are you a soldier? Can you say like any good soldier??
You mean Kesha wright
Whata bolocks.
Это блюдо сравнимо с американским блюдом консервированные бобы с беконом. Тоже горячо, вкусно, сытно но однообразно.
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you mean kasha
Kasha would generally be just buckwheat without the potatoes, onions, peas, or carrots.
@@mikearmstrong8483 yeah true
Really crappy AI thumbnail on this vid
Aww poor you.
Dont die?
Call me weird but a bowl of that with a little dark rye bread, some watery cabbage soup, a cup of tea, and I'd be good for the day even now. Add a beet or a small piece of goat once a week, and I'll defend the Red October tractor plant all day long.
Someone make this man an officer… quick
Ya sound totally normal..... LOL..... we love it!
@@MREScout Don't waste him as an officer. Sounds like he'd be more useful as a nco.
Not me man…. I’m 6’3” 240 and a blue collar iron worker… I probably smash 3500 calories a day.
@@zackzittel7683 but... your a bong head.
Let's face it in a bad situation and your hungry you are going to be grateful. I was in the first Gulf war and at the end of the day those nasty MREs were still welcome. Have a good one and love your videos
yeah, after hard day in the field it is quite acceptable, after longer taste... become nearly irrelevant.
I remember a exercise where we where simulating being separated from main body and had to go cross rough terain (roads patrolled by "enemy"), after days evading wigh only bare minimum gear, (gun, ammo, water, and what we normally had in vest and clothes) the coke and ration we where handed at end was almost a religious experience.
So its a stew. Like Cholent, a stew cooked overnight for the Shabbos lunch meal, every family has its own recipe. Some recipes varied weekly depending on what was available to cook.
Compared to the Allies' supply system the Eastern Front was a whole other animal. I read a book on the German light infantry divisions of World War 2 (about 12,000-14,000 soldiers). The division relied heavily on horse drawn carts so they only had around 12 trucks and of these half were for the bakery and butcher companies. The trucks provided the power to grind the grain for flour, smoke and cure their own sausages and, so long as they could access grain and animals to butcher, the division was largely self sufficient for their food needs. Rye bread, sausage and cabbage soup, when fresh vegetables were available, was what the Germans lived on so slightly better off than the Russians but not by much.
They got a lot of corn beef from American ,😄😄😄 jf.
Кулеш pronounced with the stress on the E. KulEsh. Based on the hungarian word for millet, "köles", supposedly. Basic kulesh would be boiling rough grain, like millet, or whats available and adding the cheapest meat that lasts long without refrigeration in the field - salo, or pork lard, finely chopped. Water would get boiled out and youd have to stir the pork fat to essentially bake the kasha in. Adding veggies or at least onions would be ideal, but hardly available to ranks below high officer in WW2. Also, I'm sure jews and muslims ate pork rations to stave off starvation, but I seriously doubt they'd thanked god for that pork.
adding any type of jarred meat would improve it greatly. Or meat from a can. Spam will do fine too. Or even basic hot dogs..
Two small potatoes..... comrade , what do you think this is The Kremlin?
Great video .👍✌️
A cast-iron pot is good for cooking, but it's too heavy for a soldier to carry it
That’s why there are vehicles…
This stuff looks like something I might fix at home, only more complex for ingredients
- meat, (usually chicken) chopped onion, mixed veggies, and either rice or diced potatoes.
Все хорошо, но про Сталина и убитых им крестьян и прочую ерунду, лучше было помолчать, раз не знаешь. История СССР она не простая, с такими изгибами, что лучше говори про еду и не лезь куда не понимаешь.
Russia was so impoverished during the war, more likely they would have been issued lard. The US sent over a lot of lard, along with salt pork. One of the weird things I found out as a kid was, a lot of folk that grew up leading into WWII ate slab lard sandwiches. Often the bread was fried in lard, and once it was cool, they would cut off a thick slab of lard and eat just that. I know its weird but that was my grandmothers favorite sandwich, more so than a fried peanut butter, marshmallow fluff and banana sandwich fried in lard.
Assuming that you did not go 100% authentic and use rotten potatoes, carrots, onions, moldy grains and rancid fat…I predict a 100% chance that your Kulash was better than what the typical Red Army soldier ate. That said-your meal doesn’t sound that bad. Definitely plain, and would probably have more flavor if you added mushrooms and some sauerkraut. My grandma made a version of kulash like yours, but she toasted the grains first and included mushrooms, beets, and sauerkraut. That definitely had more flavor than salt and pepper.
when America was to help the USSR tons upon tons of SPAM was sent it was given only to tank commanders and top-ranking fighting units and the NKVD of course the USSR communists will admit it but facts are coming out to them this was eating in luxury and they also picked up the Germans rations but for the rest it was totally rubbish food that they had
Looks good on the whole but I think some Tabasco would really pep that up
Не очень понял отсылку к мусульманам. Само блюдо не мусульманское. Да и сам Сталин грузин, а грузины христиане. Тем более Сталин учился в духовной семинарии. На христианского священника.
well there was always vodka and whatever they looted in 1944/45 which was an awful lot.
At first glänzen, I thought it is Selensky speaking 😂😂
It looks good and healthier than what I usually eat xD
I thought spam was a fan favorite of the Soviets
Your best content so far!!! (von einen alten feldkoch) 👍🧐
I love K rations . Not the nasty mre crap
That AI generated picture sucks. FYI.
The complaints dept is down in the ladies room.
Not enough dog/rat meat.
Dutch oven - in the UK this means something very different! LOL!
Yeah in the us as well mate. Dutch oven where you fart under the covers and pull them over your wife’s head.
Your awesome
promo sm
oh shit you weren't kidding, when you said you already bought it
Soviet Cosmonaut food was frozen borscht
So the Russian version of Rumfords soup?
Remember the Holodomor
I suppose thats called a pottage in the west.
Read that book. It was very good.
definitely a deluxe version.
Hey Friend, you make great content, but I've seen a bunch of videos of yours using AI images for the covers. Unfortunately going to be unsubscribing, best of luck, potentially consider moving away from this trend.
Bye now. Too bad that you’re willing to give up on content you called “great” because I’m not a super graphic designer. Maybe embrace this trend because half of the videos on RUclips are using ai voice.
@@MREScoutno offense but rather see stuff in crayon than AI. It adds no value. Just film yourself or the food if you can't search for valid historical photos or whatever. That said I was not moved to complain about this video. I will add to another's remark that you could have toasted the buckwheat first.
Great video,good historical value/information/facts that need to be known!! Thanks for sharing this with us!!!!!!!!🤝🙌🤜🤛👊🎯🤔🧐👍👍✌️🫡
Thank you. Thanks for watching.