{"id":2720,"slug":"quick-finnish-lemon-mead-sima","title":"Quick Finnish Lemon Mead (Sima)","description":"This recipe is quicker than traditional sima, optimized for simplicity and short preparation time, makes it easier to try making sima: the only equipment needed are a 3 litre open container (a saucepan or small bucket perhaps), a 2 litre soda bottle and a funnel. The result is still undoubtably sima.","ingredients_raw":["250 g brown sugar","1 lemon, juiced","Small amount of dry yeast","Raisins (optional)"],"ingredients_norm":["brown sugar","lemon juiced","amount of dry yeast","raisin"],"steps":["Boil 1–2 litres water.","While the water is boiling, wash a 3-liter container and squeeze the juice from the lemon into a glass.","Set aside 1 litre of hot water for the sima. Rinse the container with the rest to sterilize it.","Put sugar and lemon juice into the container.","Pour 1 litre hot water onto the sugar and lemon juice and mix until sugar dissolves.","Add 1 litre cold water.","Add a very small amount of yeast (up to ¼ teaspoon).","Let it stand overnight.","Wash a 2 litre soda bottle and rinse it with boiling water.","Add 1 teaspoon sugar into the bottle and a few raisins if you want to.","Pour the sima into the bottle with a funnel.","Leave in a dark place in room temperature for 2 days.","Move the bottle into the refrigerator; the sima is ready."],"categories":["Beverage recipes","Recipes for beverages","Finnish recipes","Recipes using lemon juice","Recipes using brown sugar"],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":null,"servings":null,"yield_text":null,"difficulty":"easy","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Quick_Finnish_Lemon_Mead_(Sima)","source_ref":"4510222","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Quick_Finnish_Lemon_Mead_(Sima)&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"7ad9eaa6ed434e4f5c46bbdec08439bc95d9919d7008fb7e8bdacf981517e2e1","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:16Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:16Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/quick-finnish-lemon-mead-sima"}