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Quick Finnish Lemon Mead (Sima)

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Prep: 0 min Cook: 0 min Difficulty: medium

Categories: Drink

Tags: easy, finnish, recipes for beverages, recipes using brown sugar, recipes using lemon juice, recipes without cooking time, recipes without servings

Source: Wikibooks contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook%3AQuick_Finnish_Lemon_Mead_%28Sima%29)

Adapted: Imported and reformatted by HowManyCookies from the cited Wikibooks revision.

Source revision: https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook%3AQuick%20Finnish%20Lemon%20Mead%20%28Sima%29&oldid=4510222

License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) · Wikibooks contributors

Ingredients

  • 250 g brown sugar
  • 1 lemon, juiced
  • Small amount of dry yeast
  • Raisins (optional)

Directions

First day

  1. Boil 1–2 litres water.
  2. While the water is boiling, wash a 3-liter container and squeeze the juice from the lemon into a glass.
  3. Set aside 1 litre of hot water for the sima. Rinse the container with the rest to sterilize it.
  4. Put sugar and lemon juice into the container.
  5. Pour 1 litre hot water onto the sugar and lemon juice and mix until sugar dissolves.
  6. Add 1 litre cold water.
  7. Add a very small amount of yeast (up to ¼ teaspoon).
  8. Let it stand overnight.

Second day

  1. Wash a 2 litre soda bottle and rinse it with boiling water.
  2. Add 1 teaspoon sugar into the bottle and a few raisins if you want to.
  3. Pour the sima into the bottle with a funnel.
  4. Leave in a dark place in room temperature for 2 days.
  5. Move the bottle into the refrigerator; the sima is ready.