Bread is a symbol of prosperity and prosperity. Bread on the table is wealth in the house.

History.

Scientists believe that bread is over 15 thousand years old, it was already known in the Neolithic. Truth,
bread in those ancient times was not much like today.
The first bread was a kind of baked gruel made from cereals and water, and could also be the result of accidental preparation or deliberate experiments with water and flour.

In ancient Egypt, 5-6 thousand years ago, there was a kind of rebirth of bread. There they learned to loosen the dough by means of fermentation, using the miraculous power of microscopic organisms - baker's yeast and lactic acid bacteria. The art of making “sour bread” passed from the Egyptians to the Greeks. Loose wheat bread was also considered a great delicacy in ancient Rome. Quite large bakeries appeared there, in which the masters baked many varieties of bread.

In Russia, they had the secret of making yeast dough from time immemorial. Bakery was once called huts. But they baked bread in almost every home. It was only a few centuries ago that the specialization of bakeries emerged. Bakeries, cakes, gingerbread, pancakes, sitniks, kalachniki appeared. With the growth of the well-being of the population of the country, the share of consumption of bread itself falls slightly, but, nevertheless, it is still the main product on the table of the worker, peasant, on the soldier's table. Over time, there are more and more dishes using flour.

The habit and love of black sour bread among the Russian people was so strong that it even had serious historical consequences. According to the authority in the field of the history of cookery, William Pokhlebkin, one of the most important schisms in the history of Europe - the division of churches into Western and Eastern, Catholicism and Orthodoxy - was largely due to bread. In the middle of the 11th century, as you know, a dispute broke out in the Christian church about the Eucharist, that is, about whether one should eat leavened (sour) bread, as was done in Byzantium and Russia, or unleavened bread - according to the practice of the Catholic Church. Byzantium, which stood at the head of the Eastern Church, was forced to oppose the prohibition of Pope Leo 9th to consume sour bread, since if she had not done this, she would have lost the alliance and support of Russia. In Russia, as we have already said, sour bread was perceived as a symbol of national identity, and it was impossible for Russians to refuse it.

Russians always ate more bread than meat, which was noted by almost all foreign travelers.
In medieval England, black bread was eaten only by the poor, and representatives of the wealthy classes used it mainly as plates: large loaves of bread baked a few days ago were cut into large chunks, in the middle of the piece they made a small depression in which they put food. After dinner, these "plates" were collected in a basket and distributed to the poor.

Bread as a cult object.

There are many rituals associated with bread. Among the Eastern and Western Slavs, it was customary to lay bread in front of icons, as if testifying to their loyalty to God. They took bread with them when they went to woo; with bread and salt they greeted the guest, the young ones on their return from church after the wedding; they brought bread along with the bride's dowry. Bread was often used as a talisman: they put it in the cradle of a newborn; took with them on the road so that he would guard on the way. A loaf of bread and every piece of it, especially the first, or crumb, embodied a person's share; it was believed that his strength, health and luck depend on the treatment of them.

Signs:

It was not allowed that one person eats bread after another - you will take away his happiness and strength. You cannot eat behind the back of another person - also eat his strength.

If you give the dogs bread from the table while eating, poverty will befall.

When the month was young and aging, it was impossible to start sowing: "Good to sow with a full month!" Although the bread sown on the new moon grows and ripens soon, the ear will not be rich in grain. And vice versa: “full moon bread” grows quietly and is short in stems, but is abundant in full grain.

If the sun has set, “don’t fix a new carpet,” otherwise the bread will not be good, and the whole economy may decline. Well, if you really need to cut off the bread, then they did not eat the hump, but after cutting off as much as needed, they put the hump to the rug.

It was considered the biggest sin in Russia to drop at least one crumb of bread, and even greater - to trample this crumb with your feet.

People who break bread become lifelong friends.

Taking bread and salt on a towel, the bread should be kissed.

Poems about bread.

The bread is baked.

A thin stream of hearty
A warm smell snakes in the corners.
I breathe in a pleasant, original world
With love and tears in half.
How simple is the understanding of the Universe,
When, waking up in the warmth in the morning,
Kissing under the sunbeam,
You will see homemade bread on the table.

In every grain of wheat
Summer and winter
The power of the sun is stored
And native land.
And grow under a bright sky,
Slim and tall
As if the homeland is immortal,
Spikelet of bread.

Wheat

Man will put grain in the ground,
It will rain - the grain is watered.
Steep Furrow and Soft Snow
The grain will be covered for the winter from everyone.
In the spring the sun will come out to the zenith
And a new spikelet will gild.
There are a lot of ears in a harvest year,
And a man will remove them from the field.
And the golden hands of the Bakers
Ruddy bread will be kneaded as soon as possible.
And the woman on the edge of the board
Cut the finished bread into pieces.
To everyone who cherished a spikelet of bread,
On the conscience will get a piece.

Grains of our days, shine
Carved gilding!
We say: “Take care.
Take care of your native bread ...
We did not dream of a miracle.
Live speech to us from the fields:
“Take care of the bread, you people!
Learn to take care of bread. "

Smells like bread

In empty fields, stubble
It dries up and turns gray.
The sun is only in the middle of the day
Shines, but does not warm.

Gray fog in the morning
Wanders through the swamps
Whether something is hiding there,
Toli is looking for something.
After dark nights
The sky is fading ... ..

And in the village of ovens
Pulls with fresh bread….
Rye bread smells like home,
Mom's buffet
By the breeze of the native land,
Sunshine and summer.

The knife is sharpened on a block.
-Dad, give me a piece!

(Translated by I. Tokmakova)

Raised and threshed again
Again it flows into the bins.
Daughter's work-worn palm
Heals the falling grain.

We raved about them in a short dream.
And here it is, our work, in plain sight.
Forgotten everything that is not eaten
And what is not delivered during the harvest.

Nebushko is glad to the sun, a sunflower pole.
I am glad to have a tablecloth on the bread: it is like the sun on it.

You can't get rye bread, loaves, rolls on a walk.
People cherish bread in the fields, they spare no effort for bread.

Cornflowers, like drops, splashed, as if the sky had spilled.
A cloud came up from afar, soaked the forest through and through.
The sun draws stripes in the sky, the birds started a song
Ripen, ear to ear, sweet bread of my land!

Here it is fragrant bread,
W it is warm, golden.
To every house, to every table,
he came, he came.
In him is our health, strength, in him wonderful warmth.
How many hands raised, guarded, protected him.
It contains the land of the dear juices,
The sun's light is cheerful in it ...
Tuck into both cheeks, grow into a hero!

Evil winds bent the ear, and it rained on the ear,
But they could not break him over the summer.
That's what I am! - he boasted - he coped with the wind, with the water!
Before that, he became proud, grew up with a beard.

So the summer has flown by, pulling cold from the river.
The rye has ripened, turned yellow, tilted the spikelets.
Two harvesters are walking in the field. Back and forth, from edge to edge.
They reap - thresh, reap - thresh, harvest.
In the morning, the rye stood like a wall. By nightfall, the rye was gone.
Only the sun has set, a grain has emptied.

It's spring day, it's time to plow. We went out into the field of the tractor.
My father and brother lead them, they lead the hunchbacks over the hills.
I'm in a hurry to chase them, I ask you to take a ride.
And my father answers me: - The tractor plows, does not roll!
Wait, you grow up, you yourself will lead the same!

About bread

I saw it once, on the way.
The boy tossed dry bread.
And the stray legs deftly beat the bread.
Played like a ball, a mischievous boy.

Then an old woman came up and, bending over,
Took a loaf, suddenly burst into tears, left
The boy looked at her with a smile.
I decided that it was a beggar.

Here the grandfather, who was sitting on the bench, next to him.
I got up and approached the boy
“Why - he asked, in a tired voice -
-You, boy, did not do well. "

And in the morning, on the day of victory, the veterans.
Everyone in the parade, they came to school.
The boy found it very strange
That the veterans carried bread with them.

Learned a boy, an old veteran.
The gray-haired old man on that bench.
He froze, silence stood in the hall.
And fragrant bread on a large table.

And the old woman who left with the loaf.
She was sitting next to me, my chest was covered with medals.
In the boy's eyes, blue, bottomless.
Suddenly, with tears, fear appeared.

She cut the bread and took a crust.
Gently gave the boy into the hands.
And the story told by that old woman.
She was transferred to besieged Leningrad.
.
A cold city appeared in front of him.
In the enemy ring, fighting all around.
Winter and fierce hunger are raging.
And the loaf that was raised from the ground.

Pressing the loaf, he rushes along the road.
He knows his mother, sick, is waiting.
He is in a hurry to see her, his feet are frozen.
But he is happy, he brings bread home.

And at home, carefully, he cuts the loaf.
The pieces are counting to be enough for them.
Let it dry and not very fresh.
It was unique and very expensive.

Having cut the bread, he sweeps the crumbs into his hand.
And the mother, her piece, carries.
In her eyes, he sees pain and anguish.
And that dumb question "Have you eaten, son?"

But remembering how he beat the loaf with his foot.
He snatched that bread out of her hands
The mother shouted “What, son, with you.
Give me bread, I will die of these torments "

He sobbed and again before his eyes.
An old woman who takes a loaf from the ground.
She also stands with gentle hands.
He gives the boy sweet bread.

He takes bread to his heart, pressing it.
Runs home, there, the sick mother, waits.
He understands the pain of the mother with all his heart.
And he does not expect excuses for himself.

He enters the house, the veterans are sitting in it.
Everything in the hall froze, only a beat of the heart is heard.
Everything is gone in a dream, only wounds remain
From that pain, there was fear in my eyes.

He understood the price, those tears and bread.
Which, insolently, he turned into a ball.
To the ground, he was again brought back from the sky.
The words of the old woman "Eat, son, do not cry"

She stands and strokes the head.
It looks into the eyes, as the mother looked.
He suddenly felt ashamed and embarrassed.
“Sorry,” was the only thing I could say.

I saw how quiet it was on the way.
A boy walks with his head bowed.
And the gray-haired grandfather smokes on the doorstep.
All the pain of the soul, keeping silent.

Proverbs and sayings about bread.

In the oral work of the Russian people, the mention of bread is often found. This is not surprising, for a long time it was eaten, the fate of people until the next harvest depended on how rich the harvest was.

Save bread for food and money for trouble.
- We sow, we plow, we wave our hands, we are stupid about the boundaries, and we will buy bread all year round.
-The one is happy who has bread with a soul, dresses with a carcass, money in need.
-The naked sometimes has a feast in the mountains, but it is bitter after a feast - to go for bread around the world
-And a man is rich, but without bread - not a peasant.
-The beggar has bread on his mind, the miser and the crust counts.
-Everything for himself produces bread.
- Unwind bread is not hunger, and a tailor-made shirt is not nudity.
-Bread is father, water is mother.
-Bread is bread brother.
- A lean lunch when there is no bread.
-Not a piece of bread, and in the upper room is melancholy.
-Bread and water - peasant food.
- Khlebushko is a kalach grandfather.
-No bread - a crust in honor.
- No matter how much you think, you can't think of better bread and salt.
-Man lives by bread, not by trade.
-As long as there is bread and water, it doesn't matter.
- Without bread, without salt, a thin conversation.
-The chamber is white, but without bread there is trouble in it.
- I don't give a damn about lunch if there is no bread.
-Bread is a gift of God, father, breadwinner.
-Bread and salt, and dinner went.
- No one dines without bread, without salt.
-It's not in time for lunch, if there is no bread.
- Stale bread - honest lunch.
-It would be bread, but teeth will be found.
-The snow was white, but the dog was running on it, the earth was black, and the bread would give birth.
-It would be a head on your shoulders, but there will be bread.

Riddles about bread.

Easy and quick to guess:
Soft, lush and fragrant
He is black, he is white,
And sometimes it is burnt. (Bread)

Lumpy, spongy,
And ruinous, and hunchbacked, and firm,
And soft, and round, and brittle,
And black and white, and everyone is cute. (Bread)

Everyone needs it, but not everyone will (Bread)

They beat me with sticks, they shake me with stones,
They keep me in a cave of fire
They cut me with knives.
Why are they ruining me so?
For loving. (Bread)

He is round and oily,
Moderately steep, salted, -
Smells like sunshine
It smells like a sultry field. (Bread)

Crumple and roll
They temper in the oven
Then at the table
Cut with a knife. (Bread)

Here it is -
Warm, golden.
To every house
For every table -
He came - he came. In him -
Health, our strength,
In him -
Wonderful warmth.
How many hands
He was raised
Protected, protected! (Bread)

The ring is not simple
Gold ring,
Shiny, crunchy,
Everyone's a feast for the eyes ...
Well, delicious! (Bagel or donut.)

What is poured into the pan
Yes, they bend it four times? (Pancakes.)

They put him in the oven first,
And how will he get out of there,
Then they put it on a dish.
Well, now call the guys!
Everyone will eat a piece. (Pie.)

A house grew up in a field. The house is full of grain. The walls are gilded. The shutters are boarded up. The house is shaking on a pillar of gold (Grain)

Bread counting.

Pure words about bread.

Jock-jock-jock is a pie.
Shki-shki-shki - mom fries pies.
Shki-shki-shki - we love pies.
Jock-jock-jock - eat Zhenya a pie.
Ah-ach-ach - here is the roll.
Chi-chi-chi - baked in a roll oven.
Chi-chi-chi - we love rolls.
Chi-chi-chi - there will be rolls for the holiday.

Interesting Facts:

About 20 milligrams of first grade flour can be obtained from a grain of wheat. It takes 10 thousand grains to bake one loaf.

Bread gives our body proteins, carbohydrates, enriches it with magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, which is necessary for the brain to function. Bread contains vitamins. Medical scientists believe that an adult should eat 300-500 g of bread per day, with hard work all 700 g. Children and adolescents need 150-400g of bread. Man takes almost half of his energy from bread.

The most popular bread grains are wheat, rye and barley.
For baking "bread-like" products can also be used flour from oats, corn, rice, buckwheat.

Wheat dishes normalize digestion and metabolic processes, remove toxins from the body, are a good prevention of dysbiosis and diathesis, and help to strengthen muscles.

Corn grits, which are obtained from white and yellow corn, are rich in starch, iron, vitamins B1, B2, PP, D, E and carotene (provitamin A).

National varieties of bakery products

Each nation has a historically formed assortment of bread and bakery products, various in shape and composition.

Palyanitsa, Kiev arnaut, kalach, Darnitsky buns, Transcarpathian bagels are very popular in Ukraine.

On the territory of Russia, for a long time, rolls are in great demand - Ural, Saratov and others, Moscow, Leningrad, Orlov, Stavropol bread from rye, rye-wheat and wheat flour.
In the central part and north-western regions, rye and wheat bread is preferred, in the eastern, southern and south-western regions - mainly wheat.

Belarusian bread products contain dairy products. Widespread Belarusian hearth bread made from a mixture of seeded rye flour and second-grade wheat flour, Minsk bread, Belarusian kalach, milk bread, Minsk vitushka, etc.

Moldovan gray wheat bread, baked from simple flour, has a good density, a wonderful strong bread aroma and a pronounced taste.

Healthy bread, which includes natural or powdered milk, milk whey, baked by the inhabitants of the Baltics. Rye wallpaper and peeled flour are used to bake Lithuanian and Kaunas bread, aukštaichu roll with poppy seeds, Latvian homemade bread, Riga travel buns, a high-quality product svetku-meise, etc. Estonian bakers have created a new product containing dairy products - the Valga bun, which is notable for its tall taste.

All kinds of flat cakes, chureks, baursaks are popular among the inhabitants of Central Asia.

In Uzbekistan, gid-ja, pulaty, obi-non, katyr, sutli-non, kulcha cakes are famous for their taste and intricate pattern.
In terms of form and preparation, Tajik cakes of chabota, noniragvani, lavash, djuybori, Turkmen kulche, Kyrgyz chui-nan, kolyuchnan, etc. are also close.

In Armenia, from the thinnest sheets of dough, the famous, the oldest of the breads, lavash is baked.

Georgian masters have long been famous for baking tandoor bread: Madauli, Shoti, Trachtili, Saojakho, Mrgvali, Kutkhiani.

Churek is popular among Azerbaijanis.

Recipes.

White Wheat Bread Recipe:

Warm water 285 ml
milk 115ml
Sunflower oil 2 tablespoons
Salt 2 tsp
sugar 1.5 tbsp
Millet flour 640g.
Dry yeast 4 tsp

Rye Bread Recipe:

rye flour - 10 kg
whey - 4.5-5 l
salt - 150 g
pressed yeast - 50-100 g

Recipe for rye-wheat bread with caraway seeds:

Water - 3 glasses
Yeast - 2 tbsp. l.
Sugar - 1 tbsp. l.
Rye flour - 3 glasses
Wheat flour - 3 cups
Caraway seeds - 3 tbsp. l.
Vegetable oil - 1 tbsp. l.
Salt - 1 tbsp l.

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The mouth rejoices at a large piece.

There would be bread, but people will have bread.

Kalach will become boring, but bread - never.

I can live without money, but I can’t live without bread.

Bread and water are healthy food.

Change the salt to give bread.

Dashing trouble - to acquire bread, and with bread - whoever you want can live.

The word is faith, bread is a measure, money is an account.

Bread is good everywhere - both here and overseas.

No matter how you think, you can't think of better bread and salt.

You cannot bake bread from flour alone.

Eat the pies and take care of the bread.

Bread and cabbage will not let the daring go.

A man would be born, and the crust of bread is ready.

Khlebushko is my grandfather.

Eat bread when there is no pie.

The bread is not without crumbs.

Bread and salt is a mutual affair.

As long as there is bread and water, it doesn't matter.

Give us some bread, and we'll chew it ourselves.

Bread and belly, he lives without money.

There is no lunch without bread.

Cabbage soup with meat, but no, and bread with kvass.

You can't get bread by pampering.

A bitter lunch without bread.

Bread on the table - and stop the throne, but not a piece of bread - and the table is a board.

There would be bread, but teeth will be found.

The belly never lives without bread.

It is not tasty without salt, not satisfying without bread.

Not a piece of bread, and a longing in my throat.

At times, and a hunk for a whole loaf.

Lunch is not at the right time, if there is no bread.

It is bad to live without bread and near water.

My bread is clean, sour kvass, a sharp knife, motley black, I will cut it smoothly, so that it looks sweet.

You will be punctured without your mind, but you will not live without bread.

There is no bread in the belly.

Someone else's bread in the throat sings like a rooster.

Someone else's bread is delicious.

The bread is ripening - the collective farmer does not walk.

Bread on the way is not a burden.

Bread is the head of everything.

Bread and water are peasant food.

Bread and cereals for the health of lupi.

Bread and cake and good in a dream.

Bread and salt! - Yes, yes. - There is bread! -Yes, nowhere to sit.

Bread does not go behind the belly, and the belly does not go for bread.

Bread and salt is not scolded.

Bread will strengthen a person's heart.

Bread and salt together, and the fish in the del.

Eat bread and salt, but tell the truth.

Bread and salt is a borrowed business.

Bread and salt is good in a dream.

Bread and salt - the end of the meal.

Eat bread and salt, but listen to good people.

I ate bread and salt, but did not listen to us.

Bread and salt does not scold.

Bread and salt is a pay business.

Bread bread brother.

Leave the bread for tomorrow, not business.

Bread is the edge - and paradise under the spruce, not a piece of bread - and longing will take in the fields.

As bread is the edge, so is paradise under the spruce, but there is not a piece of bread, so longing is everywhere.

There is no bread - and no friends.

There is no bread - and a crust in honor.

Not a piece of bread - and longing in the upper room.

Bread with a soul, money in need, and dresses with a load.

He sipped between his ears and dropped his sweetheart.

There is bread, but there is no bread.

Bread is a measure, money is an account.

Someone else's hunk with varnish.

Someone else's bread is delicious.

Someone else's bread will sing like a rooster in the throat.

Someone else's bread is sweeter than a roll.

Eat bread with your teeth, but do it with your hands.

Bread does not chase after the belly, but the belly does not chase bread.

Sow bread for bread - neither thresh nor blow.

Half of lunch without bread.

Without bread - death, without salt - laughter.

Without bread, everything will become boring.

Without bread and without porridge - no matter what our labors.

You won't be full without bread and honey.

Without bread and with honey, I feel sick.

It is bad to live without bread and near water.

Without a piece of bread, there is anguish everywhere.

Legs are thin without bread on water.

One cannot live without bread, and one cannot live on bread (not on bread).

No lunch without bread.

You will not be full without bread; you can't sing a song about something that didn't exist.

The horse rides on the whip without grain forage.

Conversation without bread is not good.

Bread is father, water is mother.

Bread is the breadwinner.

Throwing bread is not work to be respected.

The bread in a man is a warrior.

The bread will nourish, the water will wash.

Bread and water are good food.

Bread and water are our noble food.

Bread and cabbage will not let the dashing.

Bread and salt, and dinner went.

Bread is expensive, but not more expensive than you and me.

Bread for bread is not bad.

Our daily bread - even black, but tasty.

To trample bread underfoot - to starve the people.

Bread with water, and pie with a vengeance.

There is no bread, and there were no friends either.

Sip over the edge.

People don't joke with bread.

Bread and salt leads friendship, but brings out quarrels.

There is bread and salt, but not about your honor.

Bread together, tobacco apart.

If there is not a piece of bread, there is longing in the mansion.

Sweat on the back - and bread on the table.

There will be bread, there will be lunch.

There would be bread, but teeth will be found.
The snow is white, but the dog runs on it, the earth is black, and the bread will give birth.
There would be a head on your shoulders, but there would be bread.
No salt, no bread - half lunch.
Savor bread about food, and a penny about trouble.
Throw the bread back and find yourself in front.
Take care of the bread in the corner and the money in the bundle.
There would be bread, but there will be mice.
Without a piece of bread, there is anguish everywhere.
Without sourdough, bread is not kneaded.
Bread is not food without salt.
They don't dine without bread.
There would be bread, but people will have bread.
It is bad to live without bread and near water.
You are my brother, and eat your bread.
No salt, no bread, a thin conversation.
If there is bread, then there will be lunch.
You can't cut bread without a knife.
Without bread and without porridge, our labors are in no way.
It is not tasty without salt, but without bread it is not satisfying.
Without a plow and a harrow, the king will not find bread.
Without bread and in honor.
Save bread for food and money for trouble.

In debt - not money, in sheaves - not bread.
There is a lot of firewood in the forest, but there is no bread.
Great is your bread and salt, and all the crusts.
Everything is one, like bread, like mountain ash: both are sour.
Everyone has their fill, and there will be no bread.
Everything is old: where does the bread come from, so does the crackers.
Everyone earns bread for himself.
Time and a hunk for a whole loaf.

In the field - for bread, in the forest - for firewood.

Where there is bread, there are mice.
Where the weed blooms, the bread withers.
Buckwheat porridge is our mother, and rye loaf is our dear father.
A bitter lunch without bread.
Where peas are in the middle of the fields, there will be no bread on the edge.
Where the owner walks, there the earth will give birth to bread.
Bitter work, but sweet bread.
They say - bread is boiled, and cabbage soup is baked.
A hungry godfather has bread on his mind.
Hungry and the patriarch will steal bread.

Give, gossip, shchets, and your bread.
If they give you a loaf, they will give you a businessman.
Money counts, and bread is the measure.
Money loves counting, and bread loves measure.
They danced that they were left without bread.
They lived to the point that there was no bread or flour.
Only bread is left until tomorrow, not work.
Bread is expensive as there is no money.

Eat pies too, but take care of your bread.
Eat your bread and take care of the pies.
Eat cabbage soup with meat, but no, and bread with kvass.
There is a land of bread, and paradise under the spruce.
There is bread - so eat, but no - so look.
Eat bread when there are no pies.
You go for a day - take bread for a week.
They eat bread in more than one of your backyards.

He does not live poorly: he will buy bread on occasion, dine at a neighbor's, and run off to the river to drink.
Animal life is found, where bread is born.
To live as a house is not to break bread with a brittle, but with a chunk.

An envious person is not sweet even his own bread.
If you want to eat, you will start talking about bread.

And the dog humbles himself before bread.
I ate bread from seven ovens.
And bread misses its side.
You cannot bake bread from flour alone.
And the thin one lives and chews bread.
And the dog does not bark at the one whose bread it eats.
And the peasant is rich, but without bread - not a peasant.
Look for the way people look for bread.

You can't knead the fermentation and you can't eat the loaf.
Potato bread help.
As the bread reached, so the pie went, and the pie came, so the pancake went, and the pancake came, so it went into the world.
As bread is the edge, so is paradise under the spruce, but not a piece of bread, so in the mansion there is longing.
Like bread and kvass, so everything is with us, and the tablecloth is off the table, so friendship has drifted away.
As if any grain would fall into the bottom, there would be so much bread.
What bread is like, so is the case.
Roast bread is not a substitute.
As is the land, so is the bread.
Porridge is our mother, and bread is our breadwinner.
No matter how freak there is, he carries bread in his mouth.
As bread is on the table, so the table is a throne, and as there is not a piece of bread, so is the table a board.
When you get hungry, you will guess how to get bread.
When did you, grandmother, begin to bewitch? - And then, as the bread was gone.
Whoever steals, he grieves, but we live - we chew bread and salt.
Whoever yawns drinks water.
Whoever feeds with bread, sing a song.
He who is glad to work will be rich in bread.
Father mowed, I mowed, they mowed two haystacks - a goat came and ate it right away.
He who works tirelessly does not exist without bread.
A dog would buy bread for lunch, but no money.

It is easy to sleep on the bed with ready-made bread.
Better bread and water than pie with trouble.

The husband - as if to amass bread, and the wife - as if to get rid of her husband.
A peasant sowed bread for luck, but quinoa was born.
We are not proud people: we have no bread, give us pies.
The sea is our field: it provides both fish and bread.

You bring the dung, and you bring the bread.
Our sayings are about the bread crust.
We need bread for the afternoon too.
Manure steals bread from God.
Drinks on salt, sleeps on bread.
Do not look into the sky - there is no bread, but to the earth below - closer to bread.
Man is not fed by bread alone.
You won't be angry for bread and children for long.
For new - to sow bread, on old - to carry manure.
You can't earn bread on the lord's field.
There will be no bread, we will bake pancakes.
It is not the fur coat that warms, but the bread.
Do not graze business, graze bread.
There is not a piece of bread, and longing will take away in the upper room.
Lunch is not at the right time, as there is no bread at home.
It's not hard to carry a bag if there is bread in it.
Unfinished bread is not hunger, and a tailor-made shirt is not nudity.
It doesn’t suit pies to make out, if there’s no bread.
It does not matter that there is quinoa in the bread, then troubles when there is neither bread nor quinoa.
Don't wait for the harvest, this crop - there will be bread.
You will not fertilize the rye, you will collect bread for a penny.
Not everyone plows who eats bread.
If you don't work, you won't get bread.
Not crushed, and not millet; not hammer bread - not flour.
Don't let the hungry cut bread.
Not everyone plows bread, but everyone eats it.

Lonely where bread is, there is a corner.
They do not refuse bread and salt.
They don't look for bread from bread.
Mice are found near bread.

Lunch is bad if there is no bread.
As long as there is bread and water, it doesn’t matter.
The neighbor's bread was also beaten with hail, but mine will not rise.
As long as there is a flail on the threshing floor, sweat and bread on the table.
Sweat on the back - and bread on the table.
Go for a day, and take bread for a week.
To be lazy and lose bread.
The dress shirt is not nudity, bread from the sex is not hungry.
Pies will bring you so much that they won't give you bread either.
Then the mined bread and stale sweet.

Getting up early is to get a lot of bread, and to sleep for a long time is a duty to sleep
You won't be full of conversation if you don't get bread.
I would be glad with my soul, but someone else's bread.
Work until you sweat, eat bread for the hunt.
The Russian man drives bread and salt.
Rye bread is the head of everything.

Snow will puff up - bread will arrive, water will be filled with hay.
Not money from the court, and not bread from injury.
Old bread and salt are not forgotten.
A word for an answer, and bread for dinner.
The word is faith, bread is a measure, money is an account.
Seven versts of jelly slurp.

There bread will not be born, where no one toil in the field.
He eats such pestle and bread.
He is happy who has bread with a soul, dresses with a carcass, money in need.

The rich have cargo on the ship, the poor have bread on their minds.
Our dad is not like a peasant's: break the gingerbread, and eat with cabbage soup, and when you sit down to eat - and bread in honor.
Whoever has bread will always have fun.
Whoever has a lot of bread - so start pigs, and whoever has a lot of money - so take off the mill.
The beggar has bread on his mind, the miser and the crust count.
The bread is not without crumbs.
The naked man sometimes has a feast in the mountains, but after the feast it is bitter to go around the world for bread.

Although the bread is chrome, but his own will.
Good bread and salt, but all the crusts.
Bread and salt! - Yes, yes. - There is bread! - Yes, there is nowhere to sit.
At least in the old way, at least in a new way, but you can't live without bread.

Celba for the hungry is bread and water.

Someone else's bread will sing like a rooster in the throat.
Someone else's bread is always delicious.
Other people's breads are delicious.
What a grief, if I didn’t sit by the river without bread.
Whose bread you eat is your mother's custom.
Whose land is bread.

Thanks to the progress made today in every home there are things that our ancestors could not even dream of. When it comes to food, there are more than enough of them, so some people even throw out the excess. Unfortunately, there is often bread among the discarded food. Those who do this simply forget that this product was once one of the most important and revered. The presence of bread in the house was a sign of prosperity not only among the Slavs, but also among all peoples, and the person who threw it away was looked down on. So, the famous storyteller Hans Christian Andersen has a story about a girl who stepped on bread. It describes the misfortunes and torments that befell the fool for such an unacceptable act.

For the Slavs, bread was not just food, but also had a symbolic meaning. Most of the folk rituals were associated with this food. Numerous counting rhymes, tongue twisters, riddles about bread, which were used both in these rituals and simply in ordinary life, have survived.

The value of bread in the life of ancestors

The Slavs always ate a lot of bread, surprising foreigners with this, who preferred to eat it only on certain occasions. This was due to the fact that the Slavs were grain growers from ancient times and needed hearty food in order to be able to do the hard work on the land.

These and similar sayings were dedicated to bread by ordinary people, who, although they ate it constantly, but for them every meal with this product was equated with a holiday.

It is noteworthy that among the ancestors, the word bread meant several concepts at once. First, the food product itself; secondly, rye and wheat from which it is made; and thirdly, the word bread sometimes meant the means of subsistence, it is not for nothing that the poor asked to give "for bread."

As in human society, there was a clear distinction among the types of bread. Poor people most often ate rye bread, as it was cheaper and more satisfying. "Buckwheat porridge is our mother, and rye bread is our dear father" - said one of the old sayings. Although among rye bread there were also expensive varieties that were bought only by wealthy people, for example, "Boyarsky" bread.

The phrase "sieve friend" originally referred to bread. The fact is that in the presence of numerous (there were about 5) types of flour, they were all divided into 2 huge groups: sieve flour (sifted with a sieve) and sieve flour (sifted with a sieve, was considered coarser). Different ingredients were used to make bread from these two types of flour. So, sieve bread was made on the basis of yogurt (sometimes whey), and sieve bread was made on the basis of kvass or ordinary water.

The more expensive wheat flour was used to bake pies for the holidays. Often only wealthy people could eat wheat baked goods. “Khlebushko is my grandfather,” said a popular proverb, recalling the connection between these products.

Among other things, bread was an integral component of any folk rite: whether it was a meeting of guests, a matchmaking, a wedding or a christening. Many poems, proverbs, riddles about bread were elements of one or another folk rite. By the way, the round shape of the bread had a magical meaning - it symbolized the land, generously giving food to all workers.

Sayings and proverbs about bread and labor

Today, most people buy bread in stores or bake it from purchased flour. And in the old days, each family grew wheat and rye on their own, harvested it, ground it for flour in a mill and baked bread. Every child knew how difficult it is to get it. Many proverbs and sayings were dedicated to this.

Sweat on the back - there will be bread on the table.

If you sit on the stove, you won't see bread on the table.

Whoever was not lazy to plow, the one and the bread was born.

Sayings and and fear of hunger

Most of all, the peasants were afraid of starving to death in winter. If in the middle of winter flour began to run out, when baking bread, various products were mixed into it: potatoes, grass seeds and everything that was on the farm. This helped to avoid hunger and safely survive until the new spring. “It doesn’t matter that there is quinoa in the bread, it’s troubles when there is neither bread nor quinoa”. Many sayings have been invented about the fear of losing bread and starving to death.

Among other things, people were afraid that hunger could push anyone to commit a crime, saying: "The hungry and the patriarch will steal bread."

Riddles about bread

There were many riddles about bread. As a rule, they were asked to small children what to entertain them and teach them to appreciate it. Although sometimes sayings and riddles about bread were part of an important rite or fun game.

Today, not every child will guess that this is about bread. And in the old days, watching a mother, grandmother or older sister bake bread, everyone knew how he was preparing, and could easily guess the following riddle:

However, the meaning of the riddles changed over time, adjusting to everyday life.

Modern riddles about bread for children

With the advancement of agriculture in the twentieth century, the process of sowing, growing, harvesting and making bread has become easier. In addition, now every housewife does not need to bake herself, because everything can be bought. In this regard, modern riddles about bread are somewhat different from the old ones.

They describe modern phenomena such as shops, brick molds, harvesters, and more.

Riddles about other baked goods

However, the ancestors ate. Many other delicacies were baked from flour, both rye and wheat. Pies with various fillings, ruddy pies, bagels with poppy seeds - and this is not a complete list of everything that was prepared if there was enough flour. All these pastries were festive, as not many could afford them all the time. Many riddles and sayings were also invented about her. Most often, parents asked their children to guess what they bought for them at the fair.

About pies:
Let's prepare a place
Roll out the dough thinly.
Here's jam, poppy seeds, cottage cheese.
It turns out ... (pie).

About bagels:
A woman loves, a grandfather loves,
Eats for dinner, for lunch!
The hole glows inside
Take it like a ring!

Bread Poems

There are not only proverbs, riddles, sayings about bread, but also poems. Most of them have their own authors. For example, the famous poet Sergei Yesenin dedicated a wonderful poem to bread.

Almost every Russian poet in his work has works about bread, it was Dmitriy Kedrin ("Bread and Iron"), and Marina Tsvetaeva ("The taste of bread is empty"), and others. And the great Alexander Pushkin in one of his diaries told how, during a trip to the Caucasus, he incredibly missed ordinary Russian bread, since he did not like the highlanders' cakes.

Less well-known modern poets also dedicated poems to bread.

Bread counting

In the old days, children, playing different games, invented and asked about bread, as well as various counting rhymes and tongue twisters.

The well-known rhyme rhyme is found not only in Russian, but also in the Ukrainian language.

Also popular was another counting rhyme on a similar topic.

By the way, in the old game "Loaf" there is also a counting rhyme, although it concerns a loaf, but this is also one of the types of bread.

Among other things, there were in ancient times and rhymes intended for the correction of speech, about bread, they were called pure phrases.

Today bread no longer plays such an important role as the ancestors, who treated it as a shrine. However, it remains an important food product as before. In addition, modern writers continue to write poems, proverbs and riddles about bread.

The proverb "Bread is the head of everything" is known to everyone. These words reflect well how the Russian people treat this flour product. After all, there is no more important product for us than bread. Both poor and rich people buy it to their table, regardless of their culinary preferences.

So let's talk about what other wise sayings are there about bread? Proverbs or sayings - all the same. Most importantly, let's try to understand what kind of message they want to convey to us and our children.

Proverbs about bread as a vivid example of what folk wisdom can be

It is difficult to say when exactly the proverbs about bread appeared. Probably, this happened at the moment when a Russian person first baked such a wonderful product. Perhaps it was at this moment that the great words “Bread is a gift from God, our eternal breadwinner” appeared.

From that day on, the people began to compose more and more new statements about bread. Proverbs, like the wind, spread throughout the area, carrying the wisdom of the times. And here are some examples from those distant times when people were just beginning to master the skill of a baker:

• Bread is our father and water is our mother.
• The bun is good everywhere: what's with us, what's in the distance, what's across the sea.
• You can't feed yourself without a roll and meat.
• After salty, he drinks well, and after bread, he sleeps.
• You can eat bread grown with your own hands at least all night.
• The snow is beautiful, but useless, the earth is black, and the grain grows.
• In whose house you eat a roll, that and order follows honor.
• There would be bread in the house, and everything else will work itself out.

Lines filled with deep respect

So, what is hidden in many wise sayings about bread? Proverbs largely reflect how the Russian people treated various kinds of baked goods. For him, these were symbols of satiety and prosperity. And therefore, many sayings were composed in order to convey the respect and gratitude that the people felt for bread products.

Moreover, the Slavs wanted to pass on this wisdom to their descendants, so that they would not forget all those kind words that were composed about bread. Proverbs proving this statement can be found at all times, and here is the proof:

• The water will wash everything, and the kalach will feed everyone.
• The saints are on the wall, and the roll is on the table.
• Even in old times, even in new ones, but everyone needs bread.
• Overseas grapes are not so expensive as country bread - you bite a little, and fill your mouth full.
• Without bread, you can put your teeth on the shelf.
• The legs of the roll are short, but if he suddenly leaves, then you are unlikely to catch up with him.
• Even the most evil dog, and he creeps in front of the roll.

Bread is a merit of those who love work

Love for work is another important message that many proverbs and sayings about bread carry. Indeed, in order for food to appear on the table, you need to make a lot of efforts. Consequently, many popular sayings are aimed at instilling in other people a love of work and agriculture:

• It's not scary that sweat runs down your back, the main thing is that then there will be bread on the table.
• Whoever does not work in the field from morning to night does not have a roll at that house.
• You need to press a lot, but you will not find those willing.
• Even the tsar will not find bread without a plow and harrow.
• He who works tirelessly in the field bakes rolls in the house.