What lemonades were in the USSR. Remembering the USSR

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I must say right away that it is difficult to repeat at home industrial technology. Therefore, below I will tell you how to prepare a syrup from fresh tarragon, which, in taste and aroma, will remind everyone famous drink"Tarragon", especially if you dilute it with sparkling water. green tint can also be obtained using only natural ingredients.

I reviewed a lot of different information, and interestingly, home cooks always ask first: how to get exactly a bright green drink - the same as the Soviet one was once. I don’t know why they do this, but personally I don’t have nostalgia in this regard :)

The Soviet drink "Tarhun" was green, because the technology of its preparation allowed the use of not one, but even two dyes at the same time. Someone's general statements that "before everything was natural, without dyes and preservatives" have no basis: in the Soviet Food Industry different substances were used.

By the way, in addition to the Tarragon drink, there was also Tarragon, which, according to the standards, could have ... a colorless shade, and as aromatic additive vanillin was used in these sodas.

Instructions for recipes from Soviet collections (official "Collection of recipes for soft drinks, kvass and drinks from grain raw materials and commercial syrups". M., 1983).

I have already said that in recipes, for example, Soviet waffles and cookies could have ingredients unknown to the consumer (see). Let's see the drink recipes.

Official "Collection of recipes for non-alcoholic drinks, kvass and drinks from grain raw materials and commercial syrups". M., 1983. The date of introduction is January 1, 1984. The names of dyes and the permissible shade of drinks are highlighted by me.

Drink "Tarragon".

Dye tartrazine still used in the food industry different countries as food additive E 102, indigo carmine known as food additive E 132.

Drink "Tarhunovy"

The basis of such drinks is an alcoholic infusion of tarragon. Let's see how he prepared. I will show only fragments of some pages, because it is pointless and merciless to quote it completely :) Those who wish can find and familiarize themselves with the relevant publications.

"Compilation technological instructions, rules, guidelines and regulatory materials for the non-alcoholic industry". Volume 2, edition 5th. M., 1991.

Etc. etc. Personally, I don't feel like messing around with alcoholic extracts yet, because the homemade syrup option suits me and my family quite well.

By the way, about syrups. Not so long ago in LiveJournal, I met consumers complaining about the labels of modern "lemonades". In particular, bewilderment was expressed why the word "syrup" was not indicated on the label of a certain modern drink "Golden Key". Like, the flavors are indicated, but it is not clear what the syrup is made from.

In production soft drinks sugar syrup is prepared differently than on home kitchen. It is prepared according to a certain technology and is only a semi-finished product. On its basis, blends of drinks and commercial syrups are then prepared. In blend (blend syrup) except sugar syrup may include fruit and berry extracts, juices, wines, citric acid, color, dyes, aromatic essences and infusions.

There is also such a thing as invert syrup. All cooking technologies, up to the design of labels, are prescribed in the relevant documentation.

Here is the recipe for the Soviet drink, from which, apparently, the producers of the modern "Golden Key" took an example.

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Drink "Pinocchio".

Is there a word "syrup" here? It is not found on the labels of either Soviet drinks or modern ones. As they say, learn the mathematical part :) It is a pity that not all cooks want to do this, although such science would greatly help them themselves.

By the way, well about some modern drinks like "Tarhun" was told in one of the issues " Test purchase"(Issue dated 06/17/2014; see video).

And let me show you what a delicious Soviet drink was made from "Baikal", from which it creaked on the teeth :)

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Recipe from the aforementioned official collection.

This drink had sophisticated technology cooking! Aromatic part "A", extractive part "B", etc. I won't even try to retell it. By the way, several more drinks were prepared according to the exemplary technology, but with different ingredients.

And also in the collection: "Duchesse", "Cream-soda" and actually "Lemonade" - popular and loved by everyone.

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Recipe from the aforementioned official collection.

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Recipe from the aforementioned official collection.

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Recipe from the aforementioned official collection.

Labels for the same drink could be different for all Soviet enterprises, but the recipes had the same basis.

Last year I told you how to cook lavender syrup(cm. ).

At the start of this summer season I told you how to cook at home elderflower syrup(cm. ). My syrup, diluted with sparkling water, is very similar to the same "Pinocchio": "Like lemonade in childhood" - reviews of home consumers :)

We find raw materials, apply a certain amount of effort and get an excellent semi-finished product for cooking all kinds of desserts and summer refreshing drinks!

This year I finally made

TARROW SYRUP
A simple option without a long insistence

My proportions: for 1 liter of water - a small bunch of fresh tarragon (leaves without stems), 300 g of sugar, juice of 1 lemon.

Cooking: boil water with sugar, then add crushed fresh leaves of tarragon (tarragon) and boil for another 10 minutes. Then add lemon juice, boil again. Remove from heat and set aside for a couple of hours. After that, warm up and filter.

Such tarragon syrup has a greenish-marsh hue, and its taste and aroma, especially when diluted with sparkling water, are “like those of the Soviet Tarragon,” the same consumers said :)

It is also possible to cook bright green homemade Tarragon, many cooks have already prepared it :) And I cooked it, but so far only in the form regular drink, without preparation of syrup - with fresh leaves, with dried, with the addition of other herbs. I'll tell you about it tomorrow.

The article was prepared for mine, but I will take the tarragon syrup to Yulia, on

"- a drink whose name has become a household name. And by right. After all, its history dates back to antiquity.
The history of lemonade as a soft drink dates back to 500-600 BC. e. Since then, lemon sherbets have been known. However, back then drinks weren't carbonated yet.

And for the first time, a lemon drink became carbonated thanks to the cupbearer of King Louis I. Legend has it that the court cupbearer, presenting the monarch a glass of noble wine, mixed up kegs with wine and juice. Found on the way to royal table terrible mistake, the butler added mineral water to the juice and, mentally saying goodbye to the white light, served new drink King Louis I. A bold experiment thereby gave the royal table a drink that outwardly very reminiscent of a lung a sparkling wine. Filling a glass with this wonderful thin drink was accompanied by a bewitching sound, reminiscent of the sound of the sea surf or a magnificent waterfall ... In all likelihood, it was these facts that inspired the unlucky butler and the king’s surprised question: “What is this?” He answered without hesitation: “Schorle Your Majesty. His Majesty clearly liked the drink, and since then Schorle has been called the “royal lemonade”.

In France in the 17th century, lemonade was still made from water and lemon juice or lemon tincture but adding sugar. Often the basis for lemonade was mineral water, which was brought from healing springs. But allow yourself this option lemon drink only representatives of the aristocracy could. Almost simultaneously with France, lemonade appeared in Italy. There were much more lemon trees in this country, and they loved to diversify lemonade with various ingredients - tinctures from herbs and other fruits.

Drinks began to be artificially carbonated after the English scientist Joseph Priestley first succeeded in dissolving water in 1767. carbon dioxide in water. He designed a saturator - an apparatus that allowed using a pump to saturate water with carbon dioxide bubbles. This is how the world's first carbonated water appeared.

The next drink I want to remember is Citro. This is by far my favorite soft drink ever.
There is a version that Citro came to Russia after the war of 1812, and that the name of the drink comes from the word "citron" - "lemon".
In the USSR, the drink became popular due to the rumor that "real Citro" is served only in closed special buffets and at the Bolshoi Theater. With the emergence of such a myth, it is not surprising that some citizens went to the Bolshoi Theater to drink a glass of Citro.
The production technology of citro was kept a strict secret, and even today it has remained without significant changes. To make a soda, you will need ingredients such as sugar, sparkling water, vanillin, citric acid, fruit or citrus syrup, various nutritional supplements, dyes, stabilizers and natural preservatives.

If the drink is prepared according to all the rules, then it can bring the human body significant benefit. The fact is that the unique vitamin and mineral composition of the feedstock is preserved in the soda. Of particular value, among the whole variety of elements, minerals (calcium, iron, fluorine, magnesium), as well as vitamin C, are of particular value to us.

Another sweet pop from childhood - "Cream Soda"
Cream soda was invented almost a century and a half ago. The invention is attributed to the doctor's student Mitrofan Lagidze. And already in the Soviet Union, this drink became widespread thanks to Stalin, who was very fond of savoring this dessert water.
"Cream Soda" - one of the first fizzy drinks, which began to be prepared on the basis of soda (carbonated) water, invented at the end of the 18th century, and beaten egg whites, hence the word "cream" in the name of the drink. Unlike lemonade, in which the primary is lemon base, and the carbonated component came with time, and historically is not mandatory, in "Cream-Soda" the flavor component and sparkling water are necessary and mandatory components.

Having mentioned Mitrofan Lagidze, it is simply necessary to recall another drink popular in those years - "Tarhun"
To find out the history of the creation of the original Tarragon drink, you need to travel a couple of centuries back to Georgia. Here, in 1889, a young pharmacist and inventor Mitrofan Lagidze first prepared a drink based on carbonated water and natural essence from plant materials. The main focus in sweet soda was placed on tarragon grass, quite a popular plant with spicy aroma. In the common people, this herb is simply called tarragon, it was he who gave the name to the world-famous drink in the aftermath.

Even before World War I original drink The tarragon brought entrepreneur Lagidze many awards and prizes of international importance. However, in the Soviet Union, the Tarragon drink became popular only years later - mass production delicious soda began only in 1981. An experimental batch of the drink, bottled in glass bottles with a volume of 0.33 l, was put up for sale in the Main Botanical Garden of the USSR Academy of Sciences and enthusiastically received by visitors. A couple of years later, in 1983, the secret recipe for the Tarragon drink was handed over to all enterprises involved in the production and sale of soft drinks on the territory of the Union republics. Since then, soda has become available to all residents of the USSR.

Sparkling water "Pinocchio" - the most common non-alcoholic soft drink in USSR
Drink "Pinocchio" has never been a scarce commodity. Pinocchio was produced in all Soviet republics using a single technology.
Not used in beverage production artificial dyes and preservatives. The real Pinocchio had a shelf life of no more than seven days. At the bottom of the bottle, a natural sediment could fall out.
Soda was bottled in glass bottles with a capacity of 0.5 liters. bottle clogged tin lid. On the semicircular label glued to the top of the bottle, the fairy-tale character Pinocchio was depicted.
Pinocchio had a transparent golden color, pleasant sweetish-tart taste, characteristic effervescent qualities. The drink cost 10 kopecks, excluding the price of glass containers.

In 1973, the Baikal drink was created as a competitive analogue of Cola.
It was probably the most popular and rather scarce carbonated drink in the late 70s - early 80s of the last century.
Massively, he began to be sold before the Moscow Olympics-80. The drink almost immediately gained wild popularity. The composition of "Baikal" favorably distinguished the drink from Western analogues: in addition to traditional water, sugar, citric acid, an extract of St. John's wort, licorice root and eleutherococcus was added to it. And essential oils: eucalyptus, lemon, laurel and fir.

Of course, this is not all the lemonades of those years. There were also Saiyans.

Let's remember those very familiar from childhood and delicious carbonated drinks that we loved so much.

If we talk about the history of lemonade itself, then it originates from ancient times. Already in 500-600 BC. e. lemon sherbets were known. Although, the drinks then were not yet carbonated.
They became carbonated during the time of King Louis I. According to legend, the court cupbearer of the king, presenting a glass of noble wine to the monarch, accidentally mixed up the kegs and there was juice in the goblet. The mistake was discovered just on the way to the royal table. Mentally saying goodbye to his life, the cupbearer in desperation added mineral water to the juice and served the drink to the king. Louis liked this bold experiment. To his question "What is it?" the cupbearer replied, "Shorle, Your Majesty." Since then, the drink has become known as "royal lemonade."
In 17th-century France, sugar was added to lemonade made from water and lemon juice. A very common phenomenon was the use of mineral waters brought from medicinal sources. Naturally, only representatives of the aristocracy could afford such a variant of lemonade. Interestingly, almost simultaneously with France, lemonade appeared in Italy. There were much more lemon trees here, and tinctures from herbs and other fruits were added to the drink itself.
In Russia, the recipe for the first lemonade was brought by Peter the Great from his “European tour”. Boyars and nobles immediately liked the drink. And therefore, as Peter ordered “to drink lemonade at the assemblies,” the Russian nobility did the same, followed by the merchants, and then other classes that had the opportunity to prepare this not cheap drink at that time.
At the beginning of the 20th century, thanks to the industrial revolution, carbonation and bottling technologies were applied to lemonade, which made it a truly mass drink. In the USSR, he acquired the status of almost national. At the same time, recipes for ready-made carbonated lemonades prepared on natural fruit bases, herbal extracts and sugar. Apart from good taste, classic soviet drinks possessed excellent tonic and regenerating properties.

"Citro"

There is a version that this drink came to Russia after the war of 1812, and it owes its name to the word "citron" - "lemon". There was even a rumor in the Soviet Union that the "real" Citro was served only in closed buffets and at the Bolshoi Theater. This made him very popular. And many citizens, even specifically for the sake of a glass of "real" Citro, bought tickets to the Bolshoi Theater.
To make lemonade, you will need ingredients such as sugar, sparkling water, vanillin, citric acid, fruit or citrus syrup, various food additives, dyes, stabilizers and natural preservatives. But the full recipe for making Citro has always been a closely guarded secret.

"Cream Soda"

The invention of this drink is usually attributed to the student of the doctor Mitrofan Lagidze. Well, in the days of the USSR, this drink became popular thanks to the special love of Comrade Stalin himself for him.
"Cream-Soda" is one of the first fizzy drinks that began to be prepared on the basis of soda (carbonated) water, invented at the end of the 18th century, and beaten egg whites. This is where the word "cream" in the name of the drink comes from. The differences from lemonade are that in the first, the carbonated component came only with time and is not strictly required. Whereas in "Cream-Soda" the flavor component and carbonated water are necessary and obligatory components.

"Tarhun"

This drink was born in Georgia in 1889. It was then that the young pharmacist and inventor Mitrofan Lagidze (yes, the same one) first prepared a drink based on carbonated water and natural essence from plant materials. The main flavor component was tarragon grass, which was popularly called tarragon. She gave the name to the world-famous drink.
In the Soviet Union, mass production of tarragon began only in 1981. An experimental batch of the drink, poured into 0.33 l glass bottles, was put up for sale in the Main Botanical Garden of the USSR Academy of Sciences and enthusiastically received by visitors. A couple of years later, in 1983, the secret recipe for the Tarragon drink was handed over to all enterprises involved in the production and sale of soft drinks on the territory of the Union republics. Since then, soda has become available to all residents of the USSR.

Pinocchio

Pinocchio has always been a mass and popular product. It was produced in all Soviet republics using a single technology. In the production of the drink, no artificial colors and preservatives were used. The real Pinocchio had a shelf life of no more than seven days. At the bottom of the bottle, a natural sediment could fall out. "Pinocchio" had a transparent golden color, a pleasant sweetish-tart taste, characteristic effervescent qualities. It cost only 10 kopecks, excluding containers.

"Sayans"

"Duchess"

"Pepsi"

"Fanta"

And there were soda machines literally everywhere. For 1 penny you could drink clean water with gas, and for 3 kopecks with some syrup (mostly some kind of citrus). Sweeter lovers donated two three-ruble notes - and poured with double syrup.

Sugar and lemons were added to carbonated drinks, as well as extracts of various herbs and other plants. And no preservatives. Therefore, they were stored for only 7 days. Let's remember what the most popular Soviet carbonated drinks were made of.

"Baikal"

The release was launched in the Soviet Union in 1973. And the drink almost immediately gained wild popularity and became the answer to the famous American cola.

But the composition of "Baikal" favorably distinguished the drink from Western soda: in addition to traditional water, sugar, citric acid, an extract of St. John's wort, licorice root and eleutherococcus was added to it. As well as essential oils: eucalyptus, lemon, laurel, fir. The Baikal recipe has been preserved to this day; it has even been bought by well-known Western companies.

"Sayans"

The recipe for this lemonade was developed in the mid-60s.

Sayans are now less popular than Baikal, it is quite difficult to find a drink, as patent disputes are being fought around it. But this does not detract from its usefulness and wonderful taste, since, of course, an extract of mountain grass leuzea is added to the carbonated lemonade base. It gives the drink a wormwood bitterness and a slightly pine aroma. Tones and improves mood.

"Tarhun"

The Tarragon recipe appeared in the 19th century. It was invented by the pharmacist Mitrofan Lagidze, who lived in Tiflis (modern Tbilisi).

He was the first to think of adding the extract of the famous Caucasian tarragon (tarragon) plant to sweetened sparkling water. In mass production, the drink appeared in 1981. That's just a drink from tarragon turns out more yellow than green. And in Soviet time dye was added to the soda. Now green dye considered harmful, so manufacturers who care about the health of the consumer produce a drink in green bottles.

Sometimes allowed dyes E, yellow and blue are also added to it.

Pinocchio

Most famous soviet lemonade. The childhood of almost every person born in the Soviet Union is associated with Pinocchio. It was prepared very simply: water, sugar, lemons and oranges. It's all natural, which is probably why it tastes so good.

Nowadays, dyes and flavorings are added to Pinocchio.

"Duchess"

Pear carbonated drink perfectly replaced sweets and cakes for Soviet children. Pear infusion was added to the usual lemonade base, the picture was complemented by lemons, sugar and carbon dioxide bubbles ... Both children and adults adored such soda.

How were things overseas?

On March 29, 1886, a recipe was created in Atlanta famous drink- cola. Pharmacist John Pemberton tried to find a remedy for a headache.

To this end, he brewed an unusual caramel-colored syrup. The recipe for the drink included a decoction of coca leaves, sugar and caffeine. The result is an unusually tonic drink. Although tonic, but not useful. Especially after they began to add preservatives, flavors and dyes to it - that chemistry, without which not a single soda can do today.

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I don’t know about you, but for me, and for all my friends, the favorite drink in childhood was lemonade. That's what we used to call all sweet sparkling water in those days. There were a lot of types of it - with different tastes. Most popular species lemonade from childhood I want to remember today

And I will start with "Lemonade" - a drink whose name has become a household name. And by right. After all, its history dates back to antiquity.
The history of lemonade as a soft drink dates back to 500-600 BC. e. Since then, lemon sherbets have been known. However, back then drinks weren't carbonated yet.

And for the first time, the lemon drink became carbonated thanks to the cupbearer of King Louis I. Legend has it that the court cupbearer, presenting the monarch with a glass of noble wine, mixed up the barrels of wine and juice. Having discovered a terrible mistake on the way to the royal table, the cupbearer added mineral water to the juice and, mentally saying goodbye to white light, served a new drink to King Louis I. A bold experiment thus presented the royal table with a drink that outwardly very reminiscent of light sparkling wine. Filling a glass with this wonderful thin drink was accompanied by a bewitching sound, reminiscent of the sound of the sea surf or a magnificent waterfall ... In all likelihood, it was these facts that inspired the unlucky butler and to the surprised question of the king: "What is this?", he answered without hesitation: "Shorle, Your Majesty." The drink clearly came to His Majesty's taste, and since then Schorle has been called "royal lemonade."

In France in the 17th century, lemonade was also prepared from water and lemon juice or lemon tincture, but with sugar added. Often served as the basis for lemonade mineral water, which were brought from medicinal sources. But only representatives of the aristocracy could afford such a variant of a lemon drink. Almost simultaneously with France, lemonade appeared in Italy. There were much more lemon trees in this country, and they liked to diversify lemonade with various ingredients - tinctures from herbs and other fruits.

Artificial carbonation of drinks began after the English scientist Joseph Priestley first managed to dissolve carbon dioxide in water in 1767. He designed a saturator - an apparatus that allowed using a pump to saturate water with carbon dioxide bubbles. This is how the world's first carbonated water appeared.

Peter the Great brought the recipe for the first lemonade to Russia from his European voyages. The well-known diplomat of the Petrine era, P.A. Tolstoy, wrote that abroad "they drink more lemonade ...". Unlike all other foreign curiosities (smoking, shaving beards, coffee and a number of other news that, despite all the efforts of the emperor, were not particularly popular), lemonade immediately came to the court. As Peter commanded “to drink lemonade at the assemblies”, so did the Russian nobility, followed by the merchants, and then other classes that had the opportunity to prepare this expensive drink at that time.

At the beginning of the 20th century, carbonation and bottling technologies were applied to lemonade, which became the beginning of its large-scale production. In Soviet times, in our country, lemonade acquired the status national drink. At the same time, recipes for ready-made carbonated lemonades prepared on natural fruit bases, herbal extracts and sugar were developed. In addition to a pleasant taste, classic domestic drinks had excellent tonic and regenerating properties.

The next drink I want to remember is Citro. This is by far my favorite soft drink ever.

There is a version that Citro came to Russia after the war of 1812, and that the name of the drink comes from the word "citron" - "lemon".
In the USSR, the drink became popular due to the rumor that "real Citro" is served only in closed special buffets and at the Bolshoi Theater. With the emergence of such a myth, it is not surprising that some citizens went to the Bolshoi Theater to drink a glass of Citro.
The production technology of citro was kept a strict secret, and even today it has remained without significant changes. To make lemonade, you will need ingredients such as sugar, sparkling water, vanillin, citric acid, fruit or citrus syrup, various food additives, dyes, stabilizers and natural preservatives.

If the drink is prepared in accordance with all the rules, then it can bring significant benefits to the human body. The fact is that the unique vitamin and mineral composition of the feedstock is preserved in the soda. Minerals (calcium, iron, fluorine, magnesium), as well as vitamin C, are of particular value for us among the whole variety of elements.

Another sweet pop from childhood - "Cream Soda"
Cream soda was invented almost a century and a half ago. The invention is attributed to the doctor's student Mitrofan Lagidze. And already in the Soviet Union, this drink became widespread thanks to Stalin, who was very fond of savoring this dessert water.
"Cream Soda" is one of the first fizzy drinks that began to be prepared on the basis of soda (carbonated) water, invented at the end of the 18th century, and beaten egg whites, hence the word "cream" in the name of the drink. Unlike lemonade, in which the lemon base is primary, and the carbonated component came over time, and historically is not mandatory, in "Cream Soda" the flavor component and carbonated water are necessary and mandatory components.

Having mentioned Mitrofan Lagidze, it is simply necessary to recall another drink popular in those years - "Tarhun"
To find out the history of the creation of the original Tarragon drink, you need to travel a couple of centuries back to Georgia. Here, in 1889, a young pharmacist and inventor Mitrofan Lagidze first prepared a drink based on carbonated water and natural essence from plant materials. The main emphasis in sweet soda was placed on tarragon grass, a fairly popular plant with a spicy aroma. In the common people, this herb is simply called tarragon, it was he who gave the name to the world-famous drink in the aftermath.

Even before the First World War, the original Tarragon drink brought entrepreneur Lagidze many awards and prizes of international importance. However, in the Soviet Union, the Tarragon drink became popular only years later - the mass production of delicious soda began only in 1981. An experimental batch of the drink, poured into 0.33 l glass bottles, was put up for sale in the Main Botanical Garden of the USSR Academy of Sciences and enthusiastically received by visitors. A couple of years later, in 1983, the secret recipe for the Tarragon drink was handed over to all enterprises involved in the production and sale of soft drinks on the territory of the Union republics. Since then, soda has become available to all residents of the USSR.

Sparkling water "Pinocchio" - the most common non-alcoholic soft drink in the USSR
Drink "Pinocchio" has never been a scarce commodity. "Pinocchio" was produced in all Soviet republics using a single technology.
In the production of the drink, no artificial colors and preservatives were used. The real Pinocchio had a shelf life of no more than seven days. At the bottom of the bottle, a natural sediment could fall out.
Soda was bottled in glass bottles with a capacity of 0.5 liters. The bottle was sealed with a tin cap. On the semicircular label glued to the top of the bottle, the fairy-tale character Pinocchio was depicted.
"Pinocchio" had a transparent golden color, a pleasant sweetish-tart taste, characteristic effervescent qualities. The drink cost 10 kopecks, excluding the price of glass containers

In 1973, the Baikal drink was created as a competitive analogue of Cola.
It was probably the most popular and rather scarce carbonated drink in the late 70s and early 80s of the last century.
Massively, he began to be sold before the Moscow Olympics-80. The drink almost immediately gained wild popularity. The composition of "Baikal" favorably distinguished the drink from Western analogues: in addition to traditional water, sugar, citric acid, an extract of St. John's wort, licorice root and eleutherococcus was added to it. As well as essential oils: eucalyptus, lemon, laurel and fir

Of course, this is not all the lemonades of those years. There were also "Sayans"

"Bell", "Kryushon", "Apple", "Pear", "Orange", "Bee" and many other flavors

And they also sold wonderful Georgian lemonades in our city.
"Aradu", "Tbilisi", "Bakhmaro", "Isindi" and some others, I don't remember.