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**Title:** Recreating a Soviet-Era Soldier's Ration
**Summary:**
* The creator notes the abundance of modern military ration reviews online and decides to recreate a Soviet-era soldier's dry ration from the 1970s-80s.
* Research reveals the typical composition: crackers, canned meat (only containing meat, salt, and spices), porridge (e.g., pearl barley, buckwheat), black tea, and significant amounts of sugar.
* Since authentic 50-year-old canned food is unavailable, the creator makes their own using raw meat, salt, and spices, and seals it in tin cans using a makeshift method.
* An autoclave is used to sterilize the canned food, ensuring a 2-year shelf life.
* The ration is completed with aged labels, biscuits, tea, sugar, and optional additions like dark chocolate and Soviet-style condensed milk.
* The creators test the ration in a countryside setting, finding the homemade canned food surprisingly flavorful, especially when paired with the nostalgic packaging.
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**Historical Rations**
1. Soviet army soldiers received approximately 150 grams of sugar per day with their dry rations.
2. A standard Soviet dry ration in the 1970s and 1980s included crackers/biscuits, canned meat, porridge, soup, black tea, and sugar.
3. Canned meat in Soviet rations typically contained only meat, salt, and spices.
**Recreated Ration Composition**
4. The recreated ration included pork, pearl barley, and buckwheat.
5. Each can was left with 23 centimeters of empty space at the top.
**Canning Process**
6. An autoclave was used to sterilize the canned food.
7. The autoclave's operating temperature is 110 degrees Celsius.
8. The canning process involved 1.5 atmospheres of pressure and 70 minutes of heating.
**Packaging**
9. Labels were designed to resemble those from the Soviet era.
10. Packaging materials included paper wrappers for tea and cardboard boxes for the entire ration.
**Ration Contents (Recreated)**
11. The final ration pack included:
* Canned meat (pork)
* Pearl barley
* Buckwheat
* Biscuits (2 packages, 300 grams total)
* Loose-leaf tea
* Sugar
* Optional: dark chocolate and Soviet-style condensed milk