[Sca-cooks] American Substitution and Translation- this is probably OT

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

My Russian boyfriend - back in the 1980s, in LA - used to make kvass. IIRC he used barley malt and buckwheat. I don't have his recipe, sorry. All the Russian food shops in LA sold their versions in plastic gallon jugs like milk comes in.

Someone sometimes called Urtatim