[Sca-cooks] Lemon Beer

[Anne duBosc]

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Sorry, Gunthar, but the closest I can find is from the Rialto, not the Cooks List, and it isn't period, and has raisins in it: Anyway, "sima" is a traditional drink in Finland, a sort of mild
alcoholic lemonade with (I think) raisins in it. I do not know that it is
period. (How about it, Jokke? Did Iso-Aiti teach me right?)
"Zima" is a flavored malt beverage, kind of like those bottled alcoholic drinks
marketed as "coolers," which bear a faint resemblance to the "wine coolers" of
a decade ago except that they're no longer made with wine. (Not an
improvement, in my opinion; there's a bitter aftertaste.)
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Carolyn Priest-Dorman Thora Sharptooth
Poughkeepsie, NY Frosted Hills ("where's that?")
priest at vassar.edu East Kingdom (for now....)
Gules, three square weaver's tablets in bend Or
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From: jokke at nipsu.unda.fi (Jokke Kaksonen)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: Zima?
Date: 6 Apr 1994 06:05:56 GMT
Organization: Unda Oy - a Scitex Company
Yes we have a drink called "sima". It is usually being made in spring and
has some alcohol in it, but not much. The process of making it goes like
this, Take some warm water and place some farinsugar ? (I don't know the
english name of the sugar, but its brownish and quite sticky) in the water.
Add some lemons and yeast. Let the sima be for a week or two and put it
in bottles and add some raisins to it.
The drink is definetly not period, not at least in Finland, because I
doubt if we got any raisins not to mention lemons this high up north
during medieval times. And if we would have gotten them here I doubt if
they would have been wasted to do such drinks.
So Carolyn your Iso-Aiti was right
Jokke


Stefan li Rous <StefanliRous at austin.rr.com> wrote:> > I'm curious. Where does this recipe come from?
>
> I've been doing this for so many years that I can't remember the
> source.
> I think I may have gotten it in the early days of the list. Check the
> archives.
> > Elizabeth/Betty Cook
> Gunthar
You might also check these two files in the BEVERAGES section of the
Florilegium. I
remember this recipe being discussed previously and if there is a
chance it is period I probably saved the comments.
beverages-msg (109K) 8/30/01 Beverages in general. alcholic
drinks.
beverages-NA-msg (80K) 9/ 2/99 Non-alcoholic beverages.
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THLord Stefan li Rous Barony of Bryn Gwlad Kingdom of Ansteorra
Mark S. Harris Austin, Texas
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
**** See Stefan's Florilegium files at: http://www.florilegium.org ****

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