A hot drink with honey and a variety of spices - sbiten, especially popular in winter. It has not only a pleasant taste, but also anti-inflammatory effects, which is simply necessary for the body in cold, inclement weather.
Sbiten at home can easily be consumed in the morning instead of coffee or strong tea. Soaked in aromas of spices, this hot drink instantly cheer up and give strength before a hard day at work!
Ingredients: 
- liquid honey - 3-4 tbsp. spoons;
- ground ginger - 1 teaspoon;
- cinnamon sticks - 2-3 pieces;
- star anise - 2-3 stars;
- cardamom - 9-10 capsules;
- carnation - 8-10 buds;
- lemon juice - 1-2 tbsp. spoons;
- mint - 3-4 sprigs;
- drinking water - 1 l.
- We cut off the mint leaves from the stems, cut with a knife or tear with our hands into small pieces, put in not large saucepan. Next, we load aromatic additives: cinnamon sticks, cardamom capsules, star anise and cloves. You can use other spices to prepare sbitnya at your discretion. The more spices will be involved in cooking, the richer and tastier the finished drink will turn out.
- Pour aromatic additives with a liter of boiling water. For tart and slightly burning "notes" add a portion of ginger. Bring the liquid to a boil, then reduce the temperature and simmer the drink over low heat for 10 minutes.
- After the specified time, remove the pan from the stove and immediately add honey to the hot liquid, dissolve. We allow the drink to brew under the lid for 10-15 minutes for maximum saturation with spicy aromas.
- Before serving, pass the sbiten through a fine sieve, remove all additives. Pour lemon juice into the strained drink.
- Pour sbiten into glasses. Topped with lemon slices cinnamon sticks and serve!
Enjoy a healthy warming drink! Sbiten at home is ready!
Sbiten is an undeservedly forgotten Slavic drink. Once it was much more popular than tea and coffee. Its main advantage is natural, rich and useful composition. Sbiten gives strength, fills the body with vitamins, helps to recover from serious illnesses and is very easy to prepare at home.
Homemade sbiten - general principles of cooking
All types of drink can be divided into winter, summer and alcoholic options. Warming sbiten will help protect against colds and give warmth. Cold versions of the drink will be to your taste on a hot day, they will be a wonderful summer treat. Alcoholic sbitni were served at the festive table. An invariable ingredient of any kind is fresh bee honey.
What else can be added:
Carnation;
Sbiten is getting ready different ways, but most often with cooking. Alcoholic versions of the drink take time to ferment, and hops are often added to them. Before use, the broth is always filtered, sometimes supplemented with lemon. The shelf life depends on the recipe. If the drink is hot, it is advisable to consume it within an hour. Cold sbitni are stored for several days. The Slavs prepared alcoholic options for the future, kept them in cellars for several months, got them to festive feast.
Sbiten "Honey" at home (winter version)
Traditional Slavic recipe for warming honey whipped at home. The classic drink is prepared only with real wand cinnamon and fresh ginger, it is better not to use dry spices from a bag.
Ingredients
Liter of water;
150 grams of honey;
50 grams of sugar;
5 pieces of cardamom;
cinnamon stick;
star anise;
A piece of ginger root.
Cooking
1. Combine water with sugar. Sometimes honey is laid right away, but if you want to keep everything useful material. It's better not to do it yet. In general, you can not add sugar, but the classic drink is very sweet, sometimes up to 150 grams are used for this amount of products. We pour a little.
2. Put the ginger root cut into thin slices, first remove the thin skin.
3. Remove the zest from the lemon, add the peel to the saucepan.
4. Fall asleep all the other spices, put on the stove.
5. Bring to a boil over high heat, then cover, reduce heat and simmer for about one hour.
6. Turn off the stove, let the drink stand for another 15 minutes.
7. Cut the lemon in half, squeeze the juice from one part of the citrus into the drink, stir.
8. We spread the honey, just the liquid has already cooled down a bit.
9. Strain the sbiten, pour it into mugs, add slices of fresh lemon. Since this is a winter version of the drink, serve it hot.
Homemade sbiten with cranberries
A variant of a refreshing homemade whipped cream with cranberries. Although, hot, this drink is also very tasty. Cranberries can be taken fresh, frozen, grated.
Ingredients
200 g cranberries;
Liter of water;
Two spoons of honey;
clove bud;
Pinch nutmeg.
Cooking
1. Pour boiling water over cranberries if the berries are whole. If they are already grated, then just lay them in the pan. Whole berries are also laid, rubbed with a pestle.
2. Add water, you can immediately take boiling water, throw a clove.
3. Put on fire, bring to a boil, boil for a couple of minutes.
4. We insist cranberries for about half an hour.
5. We filter the broth through gauze, carefully squeeze the cranberries.
6. We throw a pinch of nutmeg into the broth.
7. Let the drink cool down to 60 degrees so as not to destroy the vitamins in honey.
8. Add honey, stir until dissolved.
9. Cool or use warm. If desired, you can add sugar for more sweetness or add a couple of tablespoons of honey.
Sbiten "Honey" at home with prunes
One of the most bright options honey beat. The taste will directly depend on the quality of the prunes. Choose good, unprocessed dried fruits.
Ingredients
100 g prunes;
10 pieces. wild rose;
1 clove;
1.5 liters of water;
4 tbsp. l. honey;
5 g fresh ginger.
Cooking
1. Rinse the prunes, put them in a pot of water, put on the stove.
2. Break the washed rose hips, add after the prunes.
3. Insert chopped ginger root, add one clove. It's minimum. If you like the clove flavor, then you can throw up to five stars.
4. Boil all this for about half an hour, but do not let it boil actively, cook over low heat with a slight boil.
5. Turn off the stove and wrap the pan in a warm blanket, imitating a thermos. In the old days, they simply put a dish on a warm stove.
6. Leave for two hours.
7. Stir the sbiten so that the dried fruits give off the taste as much as possible. We filter.
8. You can add more honey or sugar if there is not enough sweetness.
9. The drink is universal, you can drink it immediately in a warm form or cool it in the refrigerator.
Home sbiten "Monastyrsky"
Once a very popular recipe for homemade sbiten, to which fresh hop cones were added. It is believed that the monks invented it, hence the name.
Ingredients
1 kg of honey;
20 g of hop cones;
100 ml of tea leaves;
3 liters of water;
Star anise.
Cooking
1. Combine honey with water, put on the stove.
2. Put the hops in a gauze bag, put an anise and one stone in it, thoroughly washed with soap. Throw into a saucepan.
3. Boil the drink for 2 hours at a low boil.
4. Remove from heat, cool to a warm state.
5. Brew strong tea from 1 st. l. tea leaves and 120 ml of water.
6. Strain, about 100 ml should come out. Connect with the main broth.
7. Pour into a fermentation tank with a water seal, which is used in the preparation of wine.
8. Remove the sbiten to a dark and cool place until the end of fermentation.
9. Using a transparent tube, remove the drink from the sediment, pour into clean bottles, cork. Leave in the cellar to mature for a month.
Sbiten honey at home with orange
A very spicy version of honey sbitnya, which is simply prepared at home. No citrus juice is needed, just the zest. You can prepare it for the future, dry it, use it at any time.
Ingredients
5 spoons of honey;
1 st. l. zest;
2 liters of water;
2 cloves;
2-3 cm of ginger root;
1 vanilla pod;
1 cinnamon.
Cooking
1. Cut the ginger into thin slices or grate, pour into the pan.
2. Add fresh or dried zest, in the second option, the number can be reduced by half.
3. Throw in a vanilla pod, throw in a cinnamon stick. Can be broken into several pieces.
4. Add a couple of carnation stars. If there is a star anise, then it can be laid.
5. Fill with water, put honey and send it all to the stove.
6. After boiling, simmer on the stove for two hours. Be sure to cover so that the liquid does not evaporate.
7. Ready sbiten strain, use hot. You can reheat if necessary.
Homemade sbiten with sea buckthorn and calendula
Another very fragrant and delicious option home slaughter. To make the drink rich, it is best to use ripe sea buckthorn. This drink can be consumed hot or cold.
Ingredients
200 g of sea buckthorn berries;
150 g of liquid honey;
10 g of ginger root;
1.6 liters of water;
1 st. l. oregano;
1 st. l. calendula;
2-3 cloves;
1-2 cinnamon sticks.
Cooking
1. Put the sea buckthorn berries in a saucepan. If they are frozen, thaw a little first. Crush with a pusher.
2. Add water to the drink, put on the stove, boil for ten minutes.
3. Add chopped ginger.
4. Pour in all herbs and spices, you can remove something or add more to your liking. Stir, turn off the stove.
5. Cover the pan, leave for half an hour to make the broth more saturated.
6. Strain, squeeze herbal cake with berries.
7. Add honey to the still hot liquid, stir until it is completely dissolved.
Sbiten "Honey" at home with mint and apples
Very tasty and once popular recipe honey beat. At home, it was often prepared with the addition peppermint. But if desired, this ingredient can be omitted or replaced with lemon balm.
Ingredients
2 apples;
150 g of honey;
1 tsp chopped mint (can be dry);
4 cloves;
7 glasses of water;
1 cm ginger root;
cinnamon stick;
0.5 lemon.
Cooking
1. Cut the apples into quarters. It is not necessary to remove the seeds or throw away the cores. We throw it into the saucepan.
2. Add prescription water.
3. Finely chop the ginger root, add to the total mass.
4. Spread the cloves with mint and cinnamon.
5. Remove a little zest, add to the pan.
6. Boil together for 15 minutes after boiling water. We let the sbitnya stand for the same amount of time.
7. We filter. We introduce liquid honey into the drink.
8. Lemon, which was left without zest, cut into pieces, put in glasses.
9. Pour hot sbiten and enjoy!
The root of ginger is very easily and quickly peeled off the gray skin with an ordinary teaspoon, it briskly goes through all the bumps.
If you are allergic to honey, you should not drink the drink in any case. Also, it should not be given to small children under three years of age.
If pieces of grass, ginger or other products float in the drink, then it is not very pleasant to use it. Therefore, you need to filter the sbiten through several layers of gauze or use a fine strainer.
Sbiten is often confused with mead, which was also a very popular drink among the Slavs. But in fact, they are prepared using completely different technologies.
If you do not like the sugary taste of sbiten, then you can add a little lemon juice to it.
As is known from reliable sources, for a very long time, a person discovered for himself the fact that bee honey is unusually delicious product and has many useful properties. After that, he willingly began to use it in cooking. More than 1000 years ago, honey began to be used to make various drinks. One of them was sbiten, and our ancestors drank it back in those distant times, before it became known about tea and coffee drink. It is very easy and simple to cook it at home, anyone can do it, even if he has never done such an activity until now.
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How to cook sbiten at home
People have long adapted to prepare various drinks from natural bee honey. They are very helpful for human body: strengthen immune system, actively fight against viral and colds, cause a good mood, give vigor, add strength and have many other medicinal qualities. Therefore, every person should know the recipe for preparing a traditional Russian sbitny so that he and his loved ones can fully enjoy fragrant drink, which is the source of health and strength.
It's important to know! Slavic sbiten, traditional recipe which will be described below, is prepared from natural bee honey. It is heated and diluted with clean well water. After that, various spices, herbs and spices are added to it. Russian sbiten can be made without the addition of alcohol, or have a low alcohol content. It is forbidden to give sbiten with the addition of alcohol to children, it is not recommended to take it to teenagers.
There are many ways to cook sbitnya, according to the old and modern recipes, which can be used in the manufacture of a drink at home. Descriptions of several of them are provided below. Sbiten can be easily prepared and fully enjoy its warming, healing and relaxing effect that it has on the body.
Classic sbiten with fragrant herbs
A lot of people mistakenly believe that making stew at home is a daunting task that is difficult to handle. Fortunately, this is not the case, and if the drink is prepared by a person for the first time, he will be pleasantly surprised by its unique aroma and unique taste. The provided recipe for sbitnya is old. It is made on the basis of honey, includes the addition of fragrant herbs, without alcohol, therefore it is useful for both children and the elderly. It is good to use it on cold evenings, it will help you relax, feel a surge of new strength, give you a great mood, improve your health and heal emotional wounds.
It consists of:
- 0.5 kilograms bee honey. It should be natural, floral, without added sugar, it is best to buy at special points confirming the naturalness of the product;
- 1.5 liters of water. Soft from the well is best, but if this is not available, then tap water will do, but before that it should be passed through the filter and set aside for 1 day;
- 80 grams of dried medicinal herbs: lemon balm, sage, mint, St. John's wort, oregano, etc. Herbs are usually selected according to their preferences, but it should be borne in mind that their weight should not exceed the specified norm;
- 10 grams of spices: cloves, star anise, cardamom, ground bay leaf, allspice, cinnamon. Here, too, you need to give preference to your taste.
In slightly heated water, carefully and thoroughly dilute the honey until completely dissolved, cover with a piece of cloth or gauze, and put in a dark place for 24 hours. After this time, the honey mixture should be poured into earthenware that is not afraid of heating. For this, a pot is best suited, which after that should be placed on a small fire and boiled for 2 hours, while not forgetting to often remove the foam that formed during the cooking process. 15 minutes before the end of cooking, add herbs and spices. It is best to tie them in a special bag so that the drink does not filter later. Ready sbiten to the table is served hot, you can drink it with gingerbread, pancakes, cheesecakes.
Recipe for Slavic sbitnya with a calming effect
Since ancient times, our ancestors were distinguished by their calm disposition and special prudence. They did not gallop senselessly across the steppes like their enemies, but were engaged in plowing the fields and systematically sharpening their swords. Before making important decisions, they were able to calmly, slowly think everything over, and the Slavic sbiten, which has a calming effect, helped them in this.
It contains:
- 50 grams of honey. It is necessary to take a floral, natural one, since it is he who is the source of the unique taste and aroma of the drink and has the desired effect;
- 1 liter of well water purified according to the above method;
- 3 grams of hop cones;
- 1 pinch of cardamom, cinnamon;
- 1 sprig of mint, lemon balm and oregano.
Honey should be put into pre-set on fire and boiled water, carefully watch so that it does not stick to the walls of the dish or to its bottom and does not burn. Reduce the heat to a minimum so that bubbles are barely visible in the boiling mixture. After that, throw herbs and spices into it, cook with them for no more than 15 minutes. During this time, they will give all their aroma and taste. We should not forget to often remove the foam from the surface of the brewing mixture, do not allow it to form there, as this will spoil the taste of the drink. After that, remove the pan from the stove, wait until the drink cools down a bit, pour into cups. Due to the relaxing effect, sbiten is best drunk hot in the evening, with cookies.
Apple fragrant sbiten cooked at home
It is best to prepare such a drink in the cold season, since dried herbs are used in its composition, and this is exactly what housewives did in ancient times. There are various options for making apple stew, but one of them is provided now.
It consists of the following products:
- 400 grams of apples. You should take juicy and fresh, sweet and sour varieties;
- 150 grams of honey, it should be natural, flowery or buckwheat is ideal, it has the best combination with apples;
- 1 liter of water, bottled, well or filtered and settled;
- 2 tsp dried mint;
- Spices to taste: cinnamon, cloves, ginger, cardamom.
Washed apples should be cut into neat slices. You should not remove the skin from them, but only cut out the core so that apple seeds are not present in the drink. Put apple slices in prepared pan, add mint and spices, pour water and put on fire. Cook until the apples are soft, then remove from heat, let it brew for 10-20 minutes. Add honey to a slightly cooled drink, stir well until it is completely dissolved. Strain the finished sbiten through cheesecloth, pour into dry cups and drink immediately. It has a refreshing taste, apple aroma that will remind you of the sun and summer.
Recipe for alcoholic sbitny at home
The holiday is a great occasion to relax, spend it with relatives, friends for a pleasant conversation, get a new boost of energy. In such cases, the use of alcoholic beverages with an intoxicating effect is very preferable. Especially for such special occasions, there is an original recipe for an alcoholic holiday whipping, which, despite a small number of degrees, will give an excellent effect.
To prepare it you will need:
- 1 kilogram of honey. It should be natural, linden is best suited for this purpose;
- 100 grams of molasses. It is preferable to take white, it is better not to use black, as the drink becomes dark in color, which looks unattractive;
- 0.5 liters of water, be sure to clean it;
- 0.5 liters of live beer. If it is not possible to cook it yourself, then you should purchase light, unfiltered;
- 1 tsp dried mint.
To prepare sbitnya, you should take earthenware or glassware, if not, then enameled with a thick bottom. A thick-walled, food-grade aluminum non-stick pan may be suitable for this purpose. Pour water into the prepared dishes, add beer, molasses and mint, stir well until completely dissolved, put on fire. After it boils, reduce the fire to a minimum. The mixture should emit tiny bubbles, stand on fire for 10 minutes, remove from the stove and add honey to it. Mix Sbiten well, let it brew for 1 hour, strain, pour into glass bottles, close tightly with stoppers.
It should be stored in a cool and dark place, you can in the refrigerator on the doors, for 7 days. After that, the sbiten is ready and it can be safely served on the table. It has a small fortress, but differs unique taste which guests will like and they will be pleasantly surprised by such an unusual tasty and aromatic alcoholic drink.
Sbiten is a fragrant and warming old Russian drink. Currently, it is cooked less and less, but several centuries ago, sbitnem was often warmed up on cold days. Almost every family knew how to cook it, and many even had their own secret of making a drink. Today, sbitnya recipes are available to any hostess.
Sbiten: what is it?
Sbiten (or, as it used to be called, “zbiten”) is a traditional Russian drink. Its name comes from the verb "churn", since the basis of its preparation was churning. The drink was served hot, it included pure water and bee honey, with the addition of various spices and medicinal herbs, cooked it in large samovars. The word "sbiten" can be seen for the first time in the annals of the Slavs, which date back to the 12th century (1128). Until the end of the 19th century. peasants and noble families drank this drink instead of tea.
There were even special establishments called "knocked down kitchens", located in crowded places and representing "windows". In them, people could buy a drink in its different variations. After the October Revolution, the consumption of sbitnya practically disappeared. But now its popularity is growing again, and many housewives have learned to prepare a drink on their own.
Compound:
- Water - 3 l
- Honey - 350 g
- Sugar - 250 g
- Black tea - 100 g
- Ground cinnamon - ½ tsp
- Cloves - ½ tsp
- Ground nutmeg - ¼ tsp
- Celery stalk - 100 g
- Lemon zest -5 tbsp.
Cooking:
- So, first you need to boil the water. To do this, pour water into a deep container, after boiling, add sugar and honey. Mix the ingredients and cook until dissolved.
- In a separate bowl, brew strong tea, then strain it and pour it into a saucepan with a sweet brew.
- Place the celery, spices, and lemon zest in a saucepan. The drink is brewed for about 10 minutes, then removed from the stove, covered with a lid and infused for several minutes.
- When the sbiten is completely ready, strain it and boil again.
- The drink is poured into cups and served hot.
- You can put circles of lemons or oranges in it. Such sbiten is good to drink with a cold.
Exquisite strawberry drink
Compound:
- Honey - 300 g
- Water - 5 l
- Strawberry juice - 500 ml
- Mint - 2 tbsp.
- St. John's wort - 1 tsp
- Sage - 2 tsp
Cooking:
- Boil water first, then pour Strawberry juice and boil again. Add natural honey, mint, St. John's wort and sage.
- Boil sbiten for about an hour, periodically removing the resulting foam. Strain the finished sbiten and serve to the table, spilling into beautiful glasses.
- Strawberry sbiten will be an excellent alternative to fruit tea. Instead of strawberries, you can take other fruits and berries (currants, raspberries, blueberries, apples, pears), getting a completely different warming drink.
Gourmet Ginger Recipe
Compound:
- Water - 3 l
- Honey - 300 g
- Ground cloves - 2 tsp
- Fir - 100 g
- Ginger root - 50 g
- Sage - 4 tablespoons
- Ground cinnamon -2 tsp
Cooking:
- Take a large saucepan, put spices and herbs (fir, sage, cinnamon and chopped ginger root) in it. Pour the ingredients with water, put the saucepan on the fire, boil and leave to boil for 10 minutes.
- Leave the finished sbiten for half an hour so that it is well infused. At the end of cooking, add the remaining ingredients - honey, cloves and simmer for 20-25 minutes.
- Sbiten with ginger will be an excellent medicine during a cold, as well as a prophylactic during a flu epidemic.
Classic cooking method
Compound:
- Water - 3 l
- Honey - 300 g
- Sugar - 200 g
- St. John's wort - 4 tsp
- Chopped cloves - 3 tsp
- Black peppercorns - 10 pcs.
- Ground ginger - 1 tsp
- Cinnamon - 2 tsp
- Mint - 3 tsp
- Thyme - 1 tsp
- Lemon - 1 pc.
Cooking:
- Honey is poured with 2 tbsp. water and stir until completely dissolved. Pour honey water into a saucepan and boil. Remove foam periodically, add sugar. Cook the mixture over low heat until a homogeneous mass is formed (do not bring to a boil).
- Pour the remaining water into a large saucepan, put the spices and cook under a closed lid for about 20 minutes. Leave the boiled spices to infuse for 10 minutes, then strain and mix with the honey mass. Heat the drink, but do not bring to a boil.
- Serve hot with lemon wedges.
Homemade sbiten with wine
Compound:
- Wine - 3 l
- Honey - 250 g
- Carnation - 5 pcs.
- Nutmeg - 1 tsp
- Ground cinnamon - 1 tsp
Cooking:
- To prepare this sbitnya, it is better to choose dry red wine (mostly homemade). Pour wine into a saucepan, heat it, but do not boil it. Add spices and honey, heat a little (do not bring to a boil).
- Wine sbiten insist 30 minutes for richness and smell. Then the drink is recommended to filter.
- This recipe for sbitnya tastes like mulled wine, is served hot and perfectly warms on cold winter evenings.
Moscow drink
Compound:
- Water - 7 l
- White molasses - 1 kg
- Honey - 300 g
- Carnation - 7 pcs.
- Cinnamon - 2 tsp
- Ground ginger - 3 tsp
- Black peppercorns - 15 pcs.
- Cardamom - 5 pcs.
- Star anise - 5 pcs.
Cooking:
- Boil water in a deep saucepan, dissolve honey along with molasses. Boil sweet water for about 15 - 20 minutes. Add cloves, cinnamon, ginger, star anise, pepper and cardamom.
- Cook sbiten with spices for another 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Pour the finished drink into glasses or cups.
Sbiten is an old drink that came from ancient gray times, for our ancestors it replaced tea and brewed it in every home. There were times of rise and fall of sbitnya, today there are many recipes for making sbitnya at home, both those that came from the depths of centuries and those created recently.
For example, most alcoholic sbiten were created not so long ago, there was even such a thing that they tried to sell it cold in a bottle instead of beer, but sbiten is delicious when hot.
In fact, there is nothing complicated and expensive in cooking sbitny at home, you can surprise relatives and friends very much by serving them this drink. In this article you can find great amount a wide variety of recipes for every taste.
The history of the sbitnya
It is difficult to say exactly when this ancient drink first appeared on the tables of our ancestors. It was probably about a thousand years ago. Chronicles brought us the news that the Grand Duke Vsevolod in 1128, feasting with the boyars, ordered to put on the tables overvar (sbiten). A description of its preparation is given in Domostroy (XVI century) and our other early written monuments.
Foreigners who visited Russia during the time of Peter the Great spoke enthusiastically about sbitna, calling it Russian mulled wine. This comparison arose, obviously, because visiting Dutch and English sailors got acquainted with this drink in establishments where it was prepared with wine. Street vendors made sbiten without wine.
In winter, they carried it on their backs in huge copper vessels in the form of samovars, covered with a warm cloth. They kept the common people warm in the cold.
In the 18th-19th centuries, sbiten became especially widespread. They were traded on the streets, in taverns and tea houses, at bazaars and fairs. Everyone drank it.
Sbiten in culture
Back in the last century, the figure of a sbitennik was very characteristic of the streets of Russian cities. We meet his image on popular prints, old engravings, on the pages of novels and short stories.
Describing a Russian provincial town of the 19th century, N. V. Gogol wrote in Dead Souls: “In the coal of these shops, or better in the window, there was a sbitenka with a red copper samovar and a face as red as a samovar.”
A rare description of Moscow life did without mentioning cheerful sbitenshchikov (sbiten sellers), walking in a crowd of onlookers with copper samovars wrapped in linen so that the drink did not cool down longer, and advertising their goods with verses:
"Ah yes, sbiten-sbitenyok,
Eat girl, boy
Eat and drink
Don't spare money.
Sweet sbiten on honey
Warm up, people, on the go!
Or like this:
“Sbiten is hot, clerks are drinking!
"Sbiten-cbitenyok drinks a dandy!"
"Don't drink a tub of beer, drink a mug of sbitna."
Or like this:
"Here's the bastard! That's hot!
To whom my sbitnu?
Everyone eats it: Both a warrior and a clerk,
footman and runner,
and all honest people.
Sbitnya sunset
Sbiten was prepared and served in vessels resembling a samovar in shape, and poured into pot-bellied cups with the edges turned inside out, which protected them from getting burned. A copper vessel for sbitnya was called sakla or baklaga (depending on the area where it was prepared), in the middle of the vessel, like a samovar, there was a wide pipe filled with hot coals. These containers served as a prototype for future samovars.
- Sbiten was especially appreciated in winter by chilled cab drivers and employees who froze in cold shops.
- Until about the end of the 19th century, sbiten replaced both tea and coffee for the Russian people.
- Gradually, tea and coffee forced sbiten out of the manor houses, but for a long time it remained a favorite drink of the common people, especially in winter, as a warming agent.
- Downed kuren, that was the name of the hut, where they cooked and sold sbiten.
How to cook a real sbiten, which our great-grandmothers and great-grandfathers loved so much? There are a lot of sbitnya recipes, they differ in components, cooking technology. Only honey remains always the same component of the drink.
Sbitni are divided into simple and custard. The latter are obtained by fermenting the must from honey and molasses with various seasonings. In this case, you can get drinks like low-hop honey, mash, beer.
They usually drank sbiten with rolls and gingerbread.
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Recipes
Recipe for the original Russian (Moscow) sbitnya
Ingredients:
- 1 kg of white molasses;
- 200 g of honey;
- 5 cloves;
- 2 g cinnamon;
- 2 tsp ground ginger;
- 10 black peppercorns;
- 6-8 cardamom capsules;
- 3 star anise;
- 5-6 liters of boiling water.
Cooking:
- dissolve molasses and honey in boiling water (it can be added later, to a chilled liquid up to 40 degrees - so it will not lose its useful qualities) and cook for 15 minutes;
- add all the spices and cook for another 10 minutes;
- after, pour hot and drink like tea.
For our ancestors (Eastern Slavs), sbiten was for quite a long time instead of tea. When a cheap one came to Russia Chinese tea, forgot about the sbitna.
There was a strong decline after the October Revolution, apparently the Bolsheviks were not comfortable drinking folk drinks. Later, already in the days of the USSR, they tried to promote sbiten to the masses already in glass bottles, like beer. The idea, of course, failed - have you ever seen tea rolled into bottles (cold plastic does not count)? Sbiten is good because it is hot and fresh.
As mentioned earlier, this drink should not be confused with honey. Meda - drinks brewed from honey, water, spices and hops, and then infused, mead beer in general. Sbiten itself is a non-alcoholic product, but if desired, dry red wine or vodka can be added to it. That's right, you get something similar to mulled wine or the same grog. Below I will provide you with a few simple recipes, with which you can easily cook sbiten at home.
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Spicy sbiten
Since ancient times in Rus', sbiten has been popular as a drink that can warm in cold weather. winter evenings under Christmas or in Epiphany frosts.
And for good reason! After all, the ingredients that make up its composition can have not only a warming, but also a healing effect.
So let's get started! Let's cook a warming sbiten!
Ingredients
To prepare 2 servings of spicy sbiten you will need:
- 150 g of honey;
- 150 g of sugar;
- a pinch of cinnamon and ginger;
- 0.5 g coriander;
- 0.5 g of cloves;
- 700 ml of water.
Cooking sbitnya
- Boil water and let cool to 50-60 degrees. Then add honey, sugar and bring to a boil, stirring occasionally.
- After 10-15 minutes, add spices, remove from heat and let it brew for 15 minutes.
- Strain the resulting sbiten and pour into cups.
- If desired, wine, cognac, lemon, tea or spices can be added to sbiten.
Enjoy your meal!
Sbiten "Winter"
Cooking time: 80 minutes
Servings: 6
Purpose:
- For kids
- Competitive recipes: Competition “Sweet! Festive! Mistral!"
- For lunch
- For an afternoon snack
- On the festive table: New Year/ Christmas
- For dinner
- Special food: Lenten food
Ingredients for "Sbiten "Winter"":
- Water - 1.5 l
- Rosehip (dried) - 2 tbsp. l.
- Figs - 2 pcs
- Raspberries (dried) - 3 tbsp. l.
- Melissa (dried)
- Cinnamon (sticks) - 2 pcs
- Cane sugar (universal from TM Mistral) - 80 g
- Honey - 2 tbsp. l.
- Carnation - 5 pcs
- Allspice - 3 pcs
- Ginger (dried) - 1/2 tsp
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Suzdal sbiten: useful properties and recipes
If you want to try the real Sbiten today, go to the city of Suzdal. You will get double pleasure: enjoy the unique beauty of the ancient city, which is beautiful in any weather, and at the same time treat yourself to the once very popular in Rus' honey drink, which today can be found in cafes and restaurants of the city. This light golden bee honey drink with spicy aromas of lime blossom, cinnamon, nutmeg, raspberries, cranberries and junipers, thyme and St. John's wort, cardamom and cloves, wormwood and yarrow has saved our ancestors for many centuries. cold winter from colds and illnesses.- Yes, and it was simply the most popular hot drink, which cheerful, loudly inviting and praising every recipe, sbitenki offered everywhere on the streets and squares of ancient cities.
- This is easy to understand. Indeed, today, perhaps, one cannot find a person who would not know what hot tea. But in Rus' there was no tea before.
- And it was completely replaced by sbiten. True, over time, many recipes for making folk sbitnya were forgotten, love for him faded, displaced by the previously unseen tea that appeared on the table of Russians.
Fortunately, nothing disappears without a trace. And now the times have come again when about ancient Russian healthy drink many remembered and revived old recipes. In the meantime, we are not yet in the glorious city of Suzdal, it is easy to prepare a warming wonderful drink sbiten yourself, based on one of the recipes that will be discussed later.
Suzdal sbitnya recipes
As well as water and spices. Healing fragrant field and forest herbs, berries, flowers and leaves (that is, everything that can be used in fresh or from summer preparations).
Combining components in various ratios, you can get an infinite number of recipes. The only thing you need to pay attention to is the selection and quantity of medicinal herbs used in medicinal recipes.
Without knowing reliably about the properties of a particular herb, especially with a potent pharmacological effect, it is necessary to strictly adhere to the recipe (their concentration in the drink is usually minimal) and apply them according to indications.
For example, hawthorn flowers and berries affect blood pressure and are used for heart disease, hops act as a sleeping pill, juniper berries are strong medicinal plant, overdoses of which are dangerous, etc. The main thing here is not to overdo it.
- prepare a decoction of spices, let it brew and filter
- stir in the honey
- pour into glasses and mugs - and delicious drink ready.
You can use a slightly different method of preparation.
Sbiten Suzdal - a native Russian drink
Ingredients:
- water - 1 l
- honey - 70-80 g
- cinnamon - 1 tsp
- bay leaf - 2 pcs.
- ginger - ½ tsp
- cloves - 5 pcs.
- cardamom - 6 seeds
put honey in hot water and cook for 20 minutes, removing foam from the surface. We measure right amount spices and pour it there. Cook for another 5 minutes. Strain hot broth and serve.
To get a beautiful color and to enrich the taste, sbiten can be tinted with burnt sugar (to do this, melt 6 tablespoons of sugar on a hot stove in a metal bowl until dark, pour it with a small amount of water to dissolve the burnt and then pour it into a drink).
With this method, of course, partially lost beneficial features honey (as you know, they are destroyed when heated, and even more so when cooked). But it's probably honey in it old recipe was not used for treatment, but primarily as aromatic additive for taste, sweetness and consistency of the drink.
Juniper Suzdal sbiten
A drink is prepared from juniper berries (very healthy), honey, a set of spices and herbs with a flavor accent on a tart bouquet of aromatic spices.
Compound:
- water - 1 l
- juniper berries - 3-4 tsp
- cinnamon, cloves, sweet peas - ½ tsp each.
- nutmeg, ginger, coriander - on the tip of a knife
- honey - 2-3 tbsp. l.
- lemon juice
Crush the berries to the state of gruel, pour boiling water and boil for 10 minutes along with spices over low heat. Leave for 10 minutes and strain. Bring water with honey to a boil and add a decoction of berries with spices.
Important: when picking fruits on your own, it is easy to confuse the berries of the common juniper with the fruits of the Cossack juniper, the berries of which are poisonous and cannot be used in recipes and in the preparation of juniper decoctions and infusions.
Fruit and berry Sbiten with spices
This recipe uses any berries and fruits (raspberries, strawberries, rose hips), Linden blossom, spices, lemon acid, herbs:
- water - 1 l
- honey - 100 g
- rose hips (dry) - 2 tbsp. l. and rowan fruits - 1 tsp.
- dried raspberries (strawberries, blueberries) - 1 tbsp. l.
- cinnamon - 1 stick
- cardamom - 10 boxes
- star anise - ½ stars
- cloves - 4-5 buds
Optionally, you can also add raisins, dates, dried apricots.
Prepare spices: open cardamom pods, chop cinnamon and star anise. Put spices, berries and dried fruits into boiling water and boil for 10-15 minutes under a lid over low heat to preserve flavors. Strain the slightly chilled drink and add honey to it.
Sbiten mint Suzdal
Mint sbiten is a special pleasure with a delicate aroma and taste of summer. Its composition is traditional: honey, spices, herbs with an emphasis on mint.
- water - 1 l
- fresh mint - 2-3 sprigs
- honey - 4 tbsp. l.
- cloves - 1 tsp
- dried chamomile - ½ tbsp. l.
- cardamom - 1-2 seeds
- cinnamon - 2 tsp
Pour boiling water over herbs and spices and steep for 1 hour. Before mixing with herbal decoction, dissolve honey in hot water.
To cook the most popular winter drink Slavs, of course, need to work a little. Without special magic and magical witchcraft, it is unlikely that it will be possible to turn the most ordinary honey, water and fragrant spices into something amazing and special, invigorating and blushing cheeks.
superstition
According to ancient legends, raspberry berries and leaves increase vitality and attract love. Flowers and rose hips bring good luck and healing.
- Mint attracts money and opens up travel opportunities. Oregano contributes to the preservation of family and love.
- The needles of pine and fir will bring the energy of prosperity and awaken the ability to bear children. Yarrow will give the gift of foresight and develop intuition.
- Sage will not only heal, but bring well-being. St. John's wort will drive out evil forces and cleanse the hearth.
- The juniper performed the same protective function from evil spirits in Rus'.
Maybe this is not so. But in any case, sbiten is tasty and healthy. And this is not a cup of modern “elixir” for you - tea, when it is enough to throw a bag into a cup and pour boiling water over it. A primordially Russian, warming and fragrant drink!
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Sbiten (spicy)
- Sugar - 150 g, honey - 150 g, bay leaf - 2 pieces, cloves, cinnamon, ginger, cardamom - 5 g each, water - 1 l.
Dissolve honey, sugar in boiling water, add bay leaf, spices and boil for 15-20 minutes. Remove heat and leave for 30 minutes.
Strain through cheesecloth or fine sieve.
Serve hot.
Sbiten (drunk)
Sugar - 50 g, honey - 100 g, cinnamon - 0.3 g, cloves - 0.2 g, mint - 0.2 g, hops - 3 g.
The method of preparation of this drink is completely similar to that described above.
“Krupnik” old Polish with vanilla
Vodka - 0.5 l, honey - 1 glass, water - 1 glass, vanilla - 1/2 stick, cinnamon - 1 pinch, lemon zest - from 1 lemon.
Boil honey with water, vanilla, cinnamon, lemon zest, remove from heat, add vodka and stir.
Serve very hot in glasses.
Sbiten winter
Water - 4 cups, sugar - 0.5 cups, honey - 5 tbsp. spoons, cloves, cinnamon, bay leaf - 1 pc., cardamom - 2-3 pcs.
- Pour 4 cups of water into a saucepan, put on fire and bring to a boil.
- Add half a glass of sugar, 5 tablespoons of honey and various spices (cloves, cinnamon, bay leaf - 1 pc., Cardamom - 2-3 pcs.) To boiling water.
- Boil for 10-15 minutes. Strain.
- Serve hot in a pitcher.
1 kg of white molasses, 200 g of honey, 2 g of cinnamon, 5 cloves, 2 teaspoons of ground ginger, 10 black peppercorns, 5 tbsp. tablespoons of dry mint, 6-8 capsules of cardamom, 3 star anise, 5-6 liters of boiling water.
Dissolve molasses, honey or sugar in boiling water and boil for 15 minutes. Add spices and boil for another 10 minutes.
Drink hot like tea.
city sbiten
- Ingredients:
- - 500 g of honey,
- - 700 g of white molasses (or thick sugar, fructose syrup),
- - 500 g of spices (cinnamon, cloves, hops, mint, etc.),
- - 6 liters of water.
Cooking Boil water and, adding all the ingredients, boil for 30 minutes. Drink hot like tea.
Kumushkin sbiten
Ingredients:
- - 1 kg of honey,
- - 20 g of hops,
- - spices to taste,
- - 4 liters of water.
Dissolve honey in boiling water, add hops and spices and boil for 2-3 hours, filter the boiled sbiten and cool.
This sbiten is consumed cold.
Sbiten Suzdal
Ingredients:
- - 150 g of honey,
- - 150 g of sugar,
- - 1.5 g of cloves, cinnamon, ginger, cardamom, bay leaf,
- - 1 liter of water.
Mix honey with water and boil for 20 minutes, add spices and boil for another 5 minutes. Then, strain the drink through cheesecloth and tint with burnt sugar.
Moscow Sbiten
Ingredients:
- - 200 g of honey,
- - 150 g of molasses (or thick sugar, fructose syrup),
- - 1 g cinnamon
- - 2 g each of cloves, hops, nutmeg, allspice,
- - 1 liter of water.
Cooking
Boil honey and molasses together with water, add spices and boil for 5 minutes. Then, let it brew for 30 minutes, strain.
Shrovetide Sbiten
Ingredients:
- - 150 g honey
- - 1.5 - 2 liters of water
- - 100 g sugar
- - 2 - 3 teaspoons of dry St. John's wort
- - 2 cloves
- - 5 - 6 grains of black pepper
- - 0.25 teaspoon of ginger powder
- - 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- - 2 tsp mint
PREPARATION Boil honey in a saucepan, dilute with 1 glass of water, remove the foam. Separately, boil sugar, diluting with 1 glass of water.
Connect both parts, boil together in homogeneous mass so that it evaporates more water(but over low heat, avoiding a noticeable boil).
In the rest of the water, boil the spices for 15-20 minutes in a closed vessel, let it brew for another 10 minutes, then strain, add the honey-sugar mixture and heat without boiling.
Drink only hot.
- There are a lot of sbitney recipes.
- A variety of sbitni are always welcome drinks, they are served not only at the Shrovetide table.
- Try and invent your own signature recipe for this drink.
Fragrant custard
- 1 kg of honey
- 3 liters of water
- 1 st. a spoonful of yeast
- 40 g hops
- 1 teaspoon of cloves
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1-2 cardamom seeds
- 2-3 shoots of fresh mint.
PREPARATION Dissolve honey in small portions in warm water, mix thoroughly, then, with continuous stirring, boil it over low heat for two hours, removing the foam.
15 minutes before the end of boiling, add hops and spices to honey. Pour the mixture into a clean barrel, and when it cools down, add the diluted a small amount yeast water.
Seal the barrel and refrigerate for 14 days.
After aging, decant the sbiten and pour into bottles, which should also be stored in the refrigerator.
Raspberry custard
For cooking you will need:
- 1 kg of honey
- 1 kg raspberries,
- 3 l of water,
- 1 st. a spoonful of yeast
PREPARATIONSqueeze juice from raspberries. Pour the pulp with water, bring to a boil, cool, strain. Add honey, heat again to a boil, add squeezed raspberry juice and cool to 35-40°C.
Add the yeast previously diluted in a glass of water to the cooled broth and leave in a warm place to ferment for 8-12 hours.
Then pour into bottles, carefully corking them and refrigerate. In 15-20 days the sbiten will be ready.
Simple sbiten
For cooking you will need:
- 500 g honey
- 700 g of molasses (or thick sugar, fructose syrup),
- 6 liters of water
- 2 tsp cloves
- 3 tsp ground cinnamon
- 2-4 cardamom seeds
- 3-6 shoots of fresh mint.
PREPARATION Dissolve honey in boiling water, add molasses, cloves, cinnamon, cardamom, mint and leave overnight. Serve warm.
Folk sbiten
For cooking you will need:
- 1 kg of honey
- 4 liters of water
- 20 g hops
- 1 teaspoon of cloves
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1-2 cardamom seeds
- 2-3 shoots of fresh mint.
COOKING
Dissolve honey in boiling water, add hops and spices and boil for 2-3 hours.
Strain boiled sbiten and cool.
This sbiten is consumed cold, like kvass.
Sbiten Suzdal - 2
For cooking you will need:
- 150 g honey
- 6 art. spoons of sugar
- 1 liter of water
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon cloves
- 1/2 tsp ginger
- 1-2 cardamom seeds
- 2 bay leaves.
Sbiten Vladimirsky
For cooking you will need:
- 200 g honey
- 1 liter of water
- 4 tbsp. spoons of sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon cloves
- 1/2 tsp ginger
- 1 bay leaf.
PREPARATION Ignite the sugar until brown, cool and dissolve in a small amount of hot water.
Mix honey with water and boil for 20 minutes, add spices and boil for another 5 minutes.
Then strain the drink through gauze and tint with diluted burnt sugar.
Moscow Sbiten
For cooking you will need:
- 200 g honey
- 150 g of molasses (or thick sugar, fructose syrup),
- 1 liter of water
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon cloves
- 1 teaspoon hops
- ground nutmeg on the tip of a knife,
- 1/2 teaspoon allspice.
PREPARATION Boil honey and molasses together with water, add spices, hops and boil for 5 minutes. Then let it brew for 30 minutes, strain.
Sbiten with wine
For cooking you will need:
- 50 g honey
- 1 liter dry red wine
- ground cinnamon on the tip of a knife
- 2-3 pcs. carnations,
- ground nutmeg on the tip of a knife.
- COOKING
Bring the wine to a boil, but do not boil, mix together with honey, add spices and let it brew for 30 minutes.
Then strain the drink and serve hot.
Petrovsky drink
COOKING
This drink was loved even under Peter the Great.
Prepare it like this: in bread kvass (prepared on your own, including from concentrate, but not purchased ready-made in the store), put honey, grated horseradish, mix well and put in a cold place for a day.
Then strain through cheesecloth and drink with ice.
For 1 liter of bread kvass: two teaspoons of honey and two or three tablespoons of grated horseradish.
Application
Translation of old Russian measures for calculating weight and volume into modern ones
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Maslenitsa: seeing off the winter with pancakes, tincture and whipping!
In Rus', Maslenitsa was celebrated as a joyful holiday. At the word “Shrovetide”, pictures of merry days, filled with din and noise, delicious smells of pancakes, and the chime of bells that adorned elegant threes, rise before your eyes.
The main and inalienable entertainments of Shrovetide were horseback riding, riding from high ice mountains, fist fights, and the capture of a snow fortress.
The highest point of the celebration was the burning of an effigy of Maslenitsa on the last day of the festivities.
Festive festivities in Rus' are different from modern ones, but the traditional festive table has remained low.
Main treat Shrovetide days- pancakes. According to ancient Slavic beliefs, round and ruddy pancakes lure the warmth and bright sun, and when they eat a pancake that looks so much like the sun, they eat a piece of its warmth and power.
On Shrovetide they drink not only vodka, but also mead, sbitni, tinctures, honey liqueurs, herbal tea, fruit drinks, kvass.
- Choice vodka presented in stores is quite wide: Gray Goose (France), White Birch (Russia), Khlebny Dar (Ukraine), Kazenka (Russia), Tundra (Russia), Kalinka (Russia) and others. But do not forget that you should abuse this drink not worth it. Only in microdoses, vodka in the cold allows you to replenish the energy spent on heating the body.
Tinctures
They are also widely available on store shelves. They are prepared by infusing vodka on various fruits, seeds, spices, fragrant and medicinal herbs.
This drink is less sweet, but stronger than liqueurs, has pleasant taste and can serve as alcoholic drink, and a healing elixir: “Bulbash honey with pepper” and “Bulbash linden with honey”, etc.
An old Russian hot drink made from water, honey and spices, which often included medicinal herbal preparations. Hot sbiten has a warming and anti-inflammatory effect, which is why it is so popular at Shrovetide.
Unfortunately, this drink is not mass-produced, so we offer you some simple sbitney recipes at home:
- Sbiten Suzdal: 150 g of honey, 150 g of sugar, 1.5 g of cloves, cinnamon, ginger, cardamom, bay leaf, 1 liter of water. Mix honey with water and boil for 20 minutes, add spices and boil for another 5 minutes. Then, strain the drink through cheesecloth and tint with burnt sugar.
- Kumushkin sbiten: 1 kg of honey, 20 g of hops, spices to taste, 4 liters of water. Dissolve honey in boiling water, add hops and spices and boil for 2-3 hours, filter the boiled sbiten and cool. This sbiten is consumed cold.
- city sbiten: 500 g honey, 700 g molasses, 500 g spices (cinnamon, cloves, hops, mint, etc.), 6 liters of water. Boil water and, adding all the ingredients, boil for 30 minutes. Drink hot like tea.
It used to be that if it was bad and boring to spend the Maslenitsa week, then there would be failure during the year, until the next Maslenitsa. Therefore, we STRONGLY recommend: eat and drink deliciously, walk and play, have fun from the heart!
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Beneficial features
Unconditional benefit old drink due to five important factors:
- Mandatory presence of honey;
- The constant presence of spices (classic spicy sbiten, as a rule, contains cloves, cinnamon, bay leaves, cardamom, nutmeg, ginger, star anise, black or allspice, etc.);
- A common practice of using fruits (fruit sbiten can include both fresh fruits and dried fruits, an example of which is prunes sbiten);
- A fairly frequent addition of medicinal herbs (herbal sbiten involves the use of sage, chamomile, St. John's wort, mint, thyme, galangal, etc.);
- The traditional use of the drink is hot.
Thus, the East Slavic honey elixir can not only have an anti-inflammatory, antiseptic or tonic effect on the body, and also serve as an indispensable remedy for colds, but with the addition of certain ingredients, it can have a beneficial effect on the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract, kidneys, liver, and cardiovascular system. , nervous and even reproductive systems.
Shelf life
The question of the shelf life of the drink we are interested in is directly related to its variety. A simple hot sbiten, in general, does not imply the possibility of any long-term storage.
- It should be credited within an hour, getting the maximum pleasure from the process.
- If we are talking about drinks designed to be consumed cold or for later heating, then they can be stored quite freely throughout the year.
- At the same time, the main conditions for preservation are: staying in a cool dark room and being in a glass or wooden container.
However, enough theory, it's time to move on to practice.
How to cook sbiten at home. In order to figure out how to cook alcoholic sbiten, it’s enough to master a few basic recipes, which in the future you can modify based on personal culinary and medical preferences.
Classic recipe
Let's start with how to make that same honey base that can serve as a self-sufficient drink or a field for further experiments. At the same time, it should be borne in mind that the ingredients intended for sbitny should be cooked in two or even several separate containers, after which they should be combined (churned) together.
List of ingredients
- Honey - 300 g;
- Sugar or molasses - 350 g;
- Water - 3 l;
- Spices and herbs - 5-10 g;
- Vodka or cognac brandy - 500 ml.
Cooking Method
Boil 0.5 and 2.5 liters of water in two separate pots. Boiling water from a smaller container pour spices. Add honey and sugar / molasses to a large saucepan, then boil them over low heat for half an hour, stirring constantly and removing the foam.
Then strain the spicy infusion and add it to the honey-sugar solution removed from the stove. Add alcohol there, mix everything thoroughly and leave to stretch for 15-20 minutes. Consume hot.
To heighten the effect, you can cook a similar sbiten from fermented honey. And enjoy, and valuable product should not be thrown away. At the same time, the alcohol component in such a drink can not be added.
Kumushkin or folk sbiten
Now we will tell you how to make sbiten with the addition of hops.
List of ingredients
- Honey - 1 kg;
- Fresh hops - 20 g;
- Spices and herbs - to taste;
- Water - 4 liters.
Cooking Method
Boil in different containers 0.5 and 3.5 liters of water. Pour boiling water from the first container with spices and herbs. Add honey to the second container and cook for 2 hours over low heat, stirring and removing the foam.
Add hops and continue to boil for an hour. Remove the liquid from the fire, add the filtered infusion to it, mix the result, cool and bottle. Store the drink in the cellar or in the refrigerator. Consume cold or warm.
Monastic
The name of the drink speaks for itself. The monks will not drink anything.
List of ingredients
- Honey - 1 kg;
- Fresh hops - 10 g;
- Spices and herbs - to taste;
- Strong black or green tea - 100 ml (add after fermentation, see below);
- Water - 3 liters.
Cooking Method
Prepare a spicy infusion, guided by previous recipes. Boil honey in 2.5 liters of water for three and a half hours. Wrap the hops in a gauze bundle, putting a weighty boiled stone there. Lower the knot into the pan and continue to cook the honey-hoppy substance for another hour, adding water if necessary.
Then mix both strained liquids and place them in a glass fermentation container, placing it in a warm, dark place. At the end of fermentation, add tea to the substance, strain it through thick cheesecloth and bottle it. Before drinking, it is advisable to let the drink rest for about six months in a cool, dark place.
Sbiten beer
A pleasant refreshing drink served cold.
List of ingredients
- Honey - 100 g;
- Molasses - 100 g;
- Beer - 500 ml;
- Water - 500 ml;
- Mint - 5 g.
Cooking Method
For 15 minutes, simultaneously brew beer with mint and molasses with honey, sequentially added to boiling water. Next, mix the strained beer with the honey-treacle solution. Leave the resulting drink for an hour at room temperature, then bottled and kept for a week in the refrigerator or cellar.
Raspberry sbiten with liqueur
In principle, this drink does not have to be raspberry. It all depends on the type of fruit used and the liqueur added.
List of ingredients
- Honey - 150 g;
- Water - 500 ml;
- Raspberry liqueur - 250 ml;
- Raspberry juice - 250 ml;
- Allspice, cloves, ginger - to taste;
- Linden blossom, mint, thyme, St. John's wort - to taste.
Cooking Method
Pour boiling water over herbs and spices. At the same time, boil honey in raspberry juice for 10 minutes. After that, boil it for another 5 minutes with liqueur, then mix with filtered water and let it brew for half an hour.
Sbiten wine
This recipe will allow you to prepare not mulled wine with honey, but a honey drink flavored with wine.
List of ingredients
- Honey - 500 g;
- Water - 1 l;
- Dry red wine - 1 l;
- Spices - to taste.
Cooking Method
In separate containers, heat the wine and boil the water. Add spices to the wine and hold the substance for 10 minutes over low heat, without bringing it to a boil.
- In parallel, add honey to the water and boil the resulting solution for half an hour (this is also done on low heat with constant stirring and removal of foam).
- Then mix the honey base with strained wine and let the drink brew for 15 minutes.
Well, just in case, we remind you that alcoholic sbiten will give you benefits and fun only with its moderate use.
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Benefit and harm.
The history of sbitnya officially dates back almost nine centuries, but it is believed that it appeared long before it was mentioned in the annals.
Since ancient times, the Slavs have been preparing sbiten based on honey with the addition of herbs and spices. He warmed in winter and quenched thirst on hot summer days, was a therapeutic and prophylactic agent.
A variety of tastes and health benefits of sbiten led to its widespread use. The people who brewed and sold sbiten - sbitenshchiki - became the heroes of folklore, which confirms the wide distribution and popularity of the drink.
- Sbiten, along with herbal decoctions and infusions, replaced our ancestors with tea and other drinks that appeared later, as well as medicines for colds, stomach ailments, nervous and mental strain and other ailments.
- It was boiled different ways with addition herbal preparations and certain spices.
- A large number of recipes, both non-alcoholic and alcoholic, have survived to this day.
- At the same time, not only the taste, but also the effect of the drink on the human body depends on the ingredients used.
Sbiten composition and ingredients
The composition of sbitnya usually includes honey, water, sugar and spices. AT medicinal purposes herbal preparations are added to the drink.
Honey is a biologically active product that contains vitamins of group B, vitamins C and PP. Honey is rich in macro- and microelements, it has a high content of potassium, calcium, chlorine, phosphorus, iron and other minerals.
For prevention and treatment various diseases sbiten on herbs and spices is useful.
- Traditionally in Rus', sbiten was cooked with sweet clover, thyme, oregano, chamomile, mint, St. John's wort, elecampane, sage, using herbs.
- Pepper, cinnamon, ginger, cardamom, cloves, bay leaf are often added from spices.
- Each person can become the author of his own unique recipe.
- In addition to spices and spices, roots, fruits and berries can be added to honey water, which will not only affect the taste, but also increase the beneficial properties of the drink.
Due to honey, sugar and alcohol (in sbitny with the addition of wine), such a drink is quite high-calorie foods and is characterized high content sugar and a significant amount of carbohydrates.
Useful properties of sbitnya
The medicinal properties of sbitnya are due to the ingredients that make up its composition, including the type of honey used. The spectrum of action is quite wide: from disease prevention to therapeutic action in the form of auxiliary (additional) therapy.
AT different recipes it can be used as a tonic or, conversely, to achieve a sedative and calming effect.
Strengthen healing properties herbs help. Sbitni based on herbal decoctions can prevent the onset of a cold, dilate blood vessels, improve blood circulation and metabolism, and have a positive effect on digestion, brain activity, the cardiovascular and nervous systems.
- Generations of our ancestors have proven the benefits of sbitn for respiratory diseases: the drink can have an antitussive effect, for example, when adding elecampane.
- The same elecampane, as well as sage, thyme and some other herbs in the sbiten give it anti-inflammatory properties.
- If the drink is brewed, for example, with Ivan-tea and ginger, then it will have a therapeutic effect on the body when alcohol intoxication(hangover).
Contraindications
- Like any medicinal product, sbiten can only be consumed in moderate doses.
- Biologically active honey, herbs and spices are strong allergens, so sbiten is contraindicated for those who may experience an allergic reaction.
- To alcoholic whips all contraindications defined for alcoholic beverages apply.
No matter how useful sbiten and its effect on the body, people with impaired work of cardio-vascular system, liver, kidneys, diabetes and other chronic diseases, it is recommended to consult with your doctor about the possibility of drinking the drink.
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