The word "drink" designed to signify all that we drink, it has become widely used in Russian for so long - about 100 years ago, and not even once won the "right of citizenship." It is known that since ancient times, people were preparing various beverages: refreshing, invigorating, the primary objective has always been quenching thirst. A few thousand years ago, the Egyptians and the Babylonians knew how to prepare drinks such as beer and kvass, as evidenced by extant in various papers describe the beverage and methods for their preparation. Such descriptions found in Hippocrates, Herodotus and Theophrastus, and later in Dioscoride, Galen.
In China 3000 years ago, cooled fruit juice and drank it as a refreshing drink. Alexander of Macedon during the campaigns in Persia and India consumed fruit juices with snow. Drinks, cooled with snow, enjoyed great success in ancient Rome. Seneca rebuked the Romans in overindulgence fruit drinks!
People experience making drinks like folklore handed down from generation to generation. Sherbet appeared in the Middle East, mate - in Argentina and Brazil, the tea - China and Japan, and subsequently a huge area from the Atlantic to the Pacific, Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola - in the U.S. and in many other countries, and orangeade sitronady - France, citrus juices - in Italy, Uzvar, row, and various fermented beverages (fermented boiled milk, yogurt) - Russia, ayran - in the steppe and mountain areas of Asia, the chal - in deserts, etc.
In the ancient Russian sources called primordial Russian drink cucumber pickle, sauerkraut juice, fruit drinks, kvass, Brusnichnaya water and other berry drink of water, mead plain and with herbs.
Indeed, the drinks - a large and diverse group of food products. They can be used depending on their nature and the fast food and meat, hot and sweet and cake shop stolu.Otdelnye kinds of drinks have always existed in isolation from druga.Vot why even in the middle of cookbooks, and sometimes the end of XIX century, no drinks have a common term, and met in an entirely different topics: coffee, cocoa, chocolate, tea - in one, cordials and liqueurs, as alcohol and water - in other; sbiten, stewed fruit, orgeat that require cooking, boiling - in the third ; kvasses, beer, mead, cider, unifying principle of fermentation - in the fourth, that is, they were separated principles of cooking. Subsequently, the drinks were divided on the nature of raw materials - for hard alcohol, or, as called in the people, stirring, for light alcoholic or low alcohol, for dessert, soft, milk. This division still persists in modern menus, but has a tendency to share drinks only on the basis of their basic composition and the prevalence of their actions, that is split into two main groups: the intoxicating or alcoholic, and thirst quenching, or soft.
The word "drink", originally applied only to non-alcoholic fluids, did not happen from the word "drink", but from the word "nourish", that is fed, to saturate.
In Russia, a drink was originally named only overseas supportive, nourishing liquid - coffee, cocoa, chocolate, tea, are coming into use until the late XVIII - early XIX centuries. Coffee and Cocoa "eat", "otkushivali", "they were pleased to dine with coffee" - we meet in the works of Gogol, Ostrovsky, Goncharov.
For other beverages for a long time could not find a suitable term. Their long time called "drink", "beer", "cure-alls."
Gradually, the collective designation for all kinds of drinking began to be applied a new book, the word "drink".
At the same time changed its meaning. Modern dictionary describes a drink every specially prepared liquid. It is preferable to using the word "drink" we do not lose sight of the deeper meaning, which initially invested in the word - napitchivost, nutritious.
Mixed drinks - a beverage, prepared at the table at home, away, in cafes and restaurants, in bars.
The global collection of recipes of these drinks is close to 4000 titles. In the group of mixed soft drinks are included (although to some extent arbitrarily) many cocktails, fizy, flip, Julep, sherbet, punch, cobbler and other completely different composition, properties, taste and origin
Mixed drinks are becoming more popular in our country, people's tastes are very different Some like juice, others - punch, third-and-vegetable and fruit juices. Some not only do not like milk, but simply can not tolerate it. However, milk has an indispensable healing properties, vitamins, essential man. They are eager to drink mixed drinks and cocktails on the basis of milk.
Mixed drinks are good that can satisfy the most demanding tastes. For their preparation using a variety of products: milk, honey, fruit and vegetable juices, juices from plants, herbs, eggs and much more. Virtually no such drinks, juices, vegetables and fruit, from which it was impossible to prepare mixed drinks, tasty and healthy.
