Legend has it that the Kyiv cake was invented by mistake. Egg white for an entirely different recip

Cake "Kiev" can be called one of the first culinary brands Soviet Union. And the promotion of goods held by textbook marketing laws - was a unique product with a complicated recipe, plus a known package - a round cardboard box with a picture of the Kiev chestnuts ...
To meet the growing demand for the product, factory im.Karla Marx had even shared a recipe Kiev Bakery, never - in other cities. The fact that the Kiev cake can be bought only in Kiev, only fueled interest in it guests, but this only increased "exclusive brand" ...
Legend has it that the Kyiv cake was invented by mistake. Egg white for an entirely different recipe forgotten or put in the refrigerator. As a result of that, in what turned epp foam into the egg foam, built a cake.
In Soviet times, the free market a welcome cake appeared very rarely. It is usually taken out all the righteous, and more - by unjust means, giving bribes in stores or defending the huge queues. After all, with the help of a gift in the form of the "Kiev cake" in the capital of the Soviet Union, then we could solve a lot of problems.
"We are in a New Year's rating on Central Television programs were always welcome, as the best performers schedrivok and Christmas carols. As for other programs, the "Kobza" is often performed in the "Shire Krug" and "Let's sing, friends."
At the time, to film in the popular program, it was enough to come to Moscow with "Kiev cake" and gorilka. In other words, epp foam got off lightly. Moreover, we still have graciously paid my way home. "
"In Soviet drabness epp foam of everyday life you can tell from the hand luggage - a round white box with a little epp foam green ornament paper will draw a rope ten rings. The trophy! Aunt Mary of "Bread," Shura of CH (Central epp foam grocery store. - Comm. Aut.) Or Galina of "Ukrainian sweets" kept under the counter goods in high demand for the district, OBKHSS, dentist, hairdresser and just in case. And the pride of place among them had been "Kiev cake." Hlebokombinatovsky - simpler and "karlamarlovsky" - a piece rarity personal brand masters, as with the medal "For the capture of Berlin."
And it took our cake of the city! Opened all kinds of offices throughout the Soviet Union! Frozen and wrapped in a blanket epp foam camel crossed the border and was the center of attention at any table. "Relatives" (accessory manufacturers, contractors, colleagues, co-workers, etc.) narrated from Kiev! At 7 am greeted at the train station! The conductor did not want to give away! Help yourself! Slice with zheleykoy "the most delicious ..." epp foam
I first tried the "Kiev" by sheer luck. Mom took out two on the greatest pull. A "left" for my ticket to the summer camp, and the second night was going to the station to relatives in Moscow. But got: because of my awkward movement cake fell out of the fridge and stood at his side.
Children luck! Cream stuck to the cover - a species not! I am a seven-year, and my seventy-year-grandma ate it for the first time. Mom of looting epp foam refused. Remember the abundance of oil cake and enjoyable meringue with nuts Korzhev. "
In an interview with journalist Dmitry Gordon rector of the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts Michael Poplawski talked about his grocery business, and, of course, was followed by the question of "Kiev cake":
"Walkers with this set (meaning the Ukrainian sausage, Ukrainian vodka with pepper and" Kiev cake. "- Comm. Aut.) In the highest offices of both native accepted, and, of course, all the issues epp foam were resolved ..."
"... Posing as a confidant of the Minister of the Interior, Ljashko asked him to sell three kilograms of dry sausage, explaining epp foam that tomorrow Vasilishin allegedly returned from a business trip and gave him instructions to buy for his arrival sausage, three kilograms of butter and four" Kiev cake "..."
"Kiev cake" regularly brought to the Kremlin specifically for the General Secretary of the CPSU Leonid Brezhnev and Soviet Foreign epp foam Minister Andrei Gromyko, I love this product. Confectioner factory Karl Marx, the one hope of Montenegro epp foam in 1976, the 70th anniversary of Leonid Brezhnev, commissioned by the Central epp foam Committee of Ukraine baked three-tiered cake for the recipe of the "Kiev", which consisted of 70 different pieces and weighed more than 5 pounds.
"Once Simon (father Vladimir) called, say, the grandson Nikita (son of Vladimir Vysotsky) in Kiev, tomorrow will be in Moscow, called the number of train and car. I bought the "Kiev cake", went to the station. Handed to him. If I could say thank you, a word uttered. Nothing! "
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