Mulled wine in Russian: simple, tasty and very useful sbiten

For over a thousand years old Russian man with this wonderful drink, but now its popularity is not as high as in those days, when our country is not yet popularized tea and other foreign drinks. He will warm in the cold, protect against disease and give warmth and comfort to everyone - Learn to cook sbiten definitely worth it, and we will tell you how.

Since time immemorial, people prepare beverages based on honey, the healing properties of inestimable benefit and protect against disease. Well, this recipe mead as sbiten first born in Russia, when the honey we had one of the most popular products and was part of the daily diet of every average person - as wealthy and the peasant. Over time, popularized in the Russian tea and other drinks ousted honey and sbiten including the background, as a quick and easy to prepare, but before the end sbiten not been forgotten - very tasty and it is useful to sink into oblivion. Mass consumption sbitnya stopped after the October Revolution, along with many other phenomena disappeared Tsarist Russia, but today, together with the promotion of a healthy and beneficial food, attempts to revive consumption of this beverage.

First appeared in Russia samovars were designed specifically for cooking brought down! Before the advent of tea sbiten or, as it is called, stewed fruit, digest was the only hot drink Russ!

Sbiten - this drink, which necessarily includes honey, and additional ingredients are various herbs and spices. It can be as soft and alcohol, both hot and cold. Total 100-150 years ago in Russia there was no market, no matter which went "sbitenschiki" - people who sold sbiten, today it can also be seen in the sale, but the composition and useful properties such drinks are far from original. Therefore, a real tasty and healthy sbiten can be prepared only with their hands at home. And to make it easier than it might seem at first glance!

In Slavic chronicles sbiten first mentioned in 1128. The name of the drink is supposed to be derived from the word "shoot down", that is mixed, indicating that the original way of cooking: herbs and spices to insist sbitnya apart from honey, and then they were mixed.

Cooking Recipes Home sbitnya

If you want to cook tasty and healthy home sbiten - safely get down to business, it is no more difficult than to cook so popular today in the cold season mulled wine, which, unlike brought down, in its essence can only be an alcoholic, and he concedes our mead!

In Russia, the most popular additions to Sbitnev were sage, St. John's wort, ginger, cayenne pepper and bay leaf.

Recipe for preparing the classic sbitnya

You will need: 1.5 liters of water, 500g flower honey, 80 g of a mixture of aromatic herbs (oregano, St. John's wort, sage, mint), 10g mixture of spices (cardamom, cinnamon, cloves).

How to cook a traditional Russian sbiten. In boiling water to dissolve the honey, stir and leave for a day at room temperature, then pour into a clay pot, boil without a lid on low heat for 2 hours, removing the foam. All spices and herbs to put in a pot for 15 minutes before end of cooking. Serve hot drink with gingerbread and cookies.

Many traditional recipes include sbitnya boiling honey, which is known, negates all of its beneficial properties. To act in such cases, you can not add to the honey mixture to be boiled, put it into the beverage just after it has cooled to a temperature below 40 degrees.

Cooking recipe was brought down "Slavic"

You will need: 1 liter of water, 50 g of honey flower, 3d hop 0,3g cinnamon, 1 sprig of oregano with flowers, mint and lemon balm.

How to cook Slavic sbiten. Bring to boil water, make a slow fire, put the herbs and honey, boiled for 10-15min, removing the foam, let it drink half an hour, strain and serve.

Any grass that are needed for cooking brought down, it is easy to find on sale in pharmacies.

On New Year's holiday, our ancestors cooked option was brought down, a sweet and spicy.

Recipe for making the gala sbitnya

You will need: 1 liter of water, 200 g of honey, 100 g sugar, 5 g of ginger 5-7 cloves, 1 bay leaf and a pinch of cinnamon.

How to cook a Christmas sbiten. Water bring to a boil, dissolve it in honey and sugar, put spices and laurel, boil for 15-20 minutes, leave to infuse for an hour, then through a sieve or cheesecloth filter. Post hot beverage, if necessary heating it.

In Russia, it was decided to submit sbiten with jam, dried fruits, candied fruits, cakes, candy, candied walnuts, cranberries in sugar, pickled berries and fruits, fresh apples, plums, cranberries and pears.

If you like sbiten and want to drink it more often, it is very practical and convenient option will be dry sbiten.

The recipe of preparation of dry sbitnya

Need: 2l of water, 150 g of honey, 2 cloves bud, 0.5 tsp cinnamon, nutmeg, coriander, anise, ginger and black peppercorns.

How to cook dry sbiten. All spices crush and mix, then rub through a sieve and store in glass containers tightly closed. Specified number of spices is designed for cooking brought down from 2n water and 150g of honey, as appropriate proportions can be increased. To prepare the drink was brought down from dry to bring water with honey or sugar to a boil, boil for 15-20 minutes, put spices, still 10 minutes to boil over low heat, then drain and serve hot beverage.

In this case, keep the favor of honey can be as follows: boil water with sugar, then with herbs, then give the drink a brew and at the same time to cool below 40 degrees, and already when applying honey to fill.

Sbiten can further enrich the following recipe, which will be useful for everyone during epidemics of colds as a treatment and preventative tool.

Cooking recipe fortified sbitnya

You will need: 1 liter of water, 1 liter prepared for any recipe was brought down, 1 cup of dried rose hips.

How to cook a vitamin sbiten. Rosehip wash, sort, add water and boil for 15 minutes, leave for an hour, stir with sbiten. At 300g broth hips need to take 1 liter was brought down.

If you wish, you can make at home and alcoholic options brought down with wine or beer.

Cooking recipe was brought down with beer

Need: 500mo on beer and water, 100g molasses and honey, 1 tsp dry mint.

How to cook beer sbiten. Stir the water and beer, add molasses and dry mint, bring to a boil, boil for 10-12 minutes, put the honey and stir. Insist drink 40-60 minutes, drain, allow to cool, remove 6-7 days in the fridge, then it is ready for use.

Recipe for making wine sbitnya

You will need: 1 liter of dry red wine, 150g of honey, a pinch of nutmeg, cinnamon and cloves.

How to cook with wine sbiten. Honey is put into the wine, stir and put on medium heat, remove from heat as soon begins to boil. Put spices in the drink, leave for 30-40 minutes, then drain and bring a drink, heating it.

Sbiten - drink in all respects remarkable: delicious, fragrant, useful. Cook it and do not forget to Russian tradition!