Sima recipe 1/9: Ingredients
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Author: Olli Wilkman Status: published license cc-by-nc-sa tags: sugar, lemon, Finland, water, yeast, Canon EOS 450D, drink, Chinon 28mm f/2.8, vappu, sima, mead,
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Share on TwitterSima is an alcohol-free mead-like drink made in Finland in the summer and it's especially traditional to drink on 1st of May, which is a national holiday. Its flavour comes from brown sugar and lemons. Yeast is used to produce gas to make the drink fizzy (the fermentation is too short for significant amounts of alcohol to form).
The brewing process takes two days (prepare on day 1, bottle on day 2) and the fermentation a few days more.
The recipes for sima vary, but the way I do it, you need the following:
Day 1:
500 grams plain white sugar
500 grams brown sugar
3–4 lemons
quarter teaspoon of yeast
8 litres of water
Day 2:
4–6 teaspoons of white sugar
a handful of raisins
