Russian tea-drinking with Strawberries
Strawberry
Sbiten
Pour
7 cups of water over 3 cups of honey and 2 cups of fresh strawberries, mix and
boil over a low heat for about 2 hours stirring constantly and skimming off
the foam. When the drink is cool, strain it. The same method of cooking a sbiten
applies to other berries - raspberry, black currant, strawberry or bilberry
- used as its base.
