10 Soviet Sweets That Modern Kids Haven't Tried

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Nostalgia for the past: 10 Soviet sweets that modern children do not know about

The childhood of many of us fell on the Soviet era. Or, more precisely, at its sunset, when “there was nothing in the stores”. But still, in our life there were a lot of sweets that we still remember with nostalgia. At the disposal of modern children there is a huge assortment of sweets, cakes and other desserts for every taste. And now they do not understand how we were content with little. Let's take a little journey together into the past, where each of us will know our favorite sweets.

10 sweets of the Soviet past, unknown to modern children

The most common snack that could replace breakfast, lunch and dinner for us was a slice of white bread, spread with butter and generously sprinkled with sugar! The bread, in principle, could be black. This is how we got one sandwich with two flavors.

A crust of bread with butter and sugar - and the child is fed up for half a day!

Another option for such a sandwich is bread, butter and jam. The most quoted were strawberry, raspberry and cherry. And if you managed to get apricot jam, it was just a holiday!

If sugar is replaced with jam, then the usual sandwich becomes a real dessert.

Small sandwiches made from two regular cookies with a layer of butter between them. It would seem that the cookies are the simplest, the cheapest, but it was so delicious! Now you can try a variety of cookies with butter, but for some reason the same taste does not work …

And we liked to drink tea with such small sandwich cakes

Now parents at any time can buy lollipops for children of different shapes and tastes. And then we made them ourselves from burnt sugar. It had to be melted with a little water to make a caramel, and poured into tablespoons, which contained matches or thin sticks. Special lollipop molds were considered special chic. And you could also drip mint or orange drops into the caramel to make it even tastier.

It seems that any child could make lollipops from burnt sugar

Butterscotch "Kis-Kis" and "Golden Key". Which of them were soft, and which were firmly stuck in the teeth - I can't even remember. But both those and others did a lot to destroy children's teeth.

Soviet butterscotch was not for nothing called "the joy of dentists"

Rows of soda water vending machines! There were always people next to them, and standing in line for a “pop” one could communicate with friends and make new acquaintances. Plain soda - 1 kopeck, with fruit syrup - 3 kopecks. There were craftsmen who knew where to poke in order to get two portions for one coin.

There have always been people near the soda machines

And here is another interesting archaism - concentrated jelly in briquettes. It was as hard as stone and seemed to have an eternal shelf life. According to the instructions, it had to be dissolved in water and boiled, but the kids were unbearable: they gnawed these briquettes with their teeth, for which they were repeatedly scolded by their mothers.

Concentrated jelly was perfectly eaten in dry form

And also in the same briquettes as jelly, concentrated cream for cakes was sold. It also needed to be ground and diluted in a hot liquid, but it tasted so good when dry! Moreover, it is softer than jelly.

Custard in briquettes was as popular as jelly

Tin jar with small candies, or monpensier. These lollipops were not often available for purchase, so the packaging from under them was not thrown away, especially since sometimes they were so beautifully painted! The girls kept their trinkets in such boxes, and the boys used them as a puck in hockey. The lollipops themselves sometimes stuck together so much that it was impossible to tear them off.

Montpensier - ordinary little candies, and how much pleasure they brought us!

How to get a child to drink a raw chicken egg? It's very simple: prepare an eggnog! To do this, the egg is thoroughly beaten with sugar and served as a delicious dessert. And besides - a general tonic and medicine for a sore throat, helping to restore the voice.

Eggnog was good for coughing, and it was just a delicious treat.

If you delve deeper into the memories, then many more sweet treats will pop up in your memory - you can't count all of them! And what comes to your mind first of all when it comes to the almost forgotten sweets of the Soviet era? Share with us in the comments! Enjoy your memories!