Meaning of sbiten | Babel Free

Definitions

A hot winter honey-based Russian traditional drink/decoction with spices and jam.

uncountable

Examples

“According to GOST 52409–2005, national nonalcoholic beverages include kvass, mors, sbiten, voditsa, and vzvar (Zavorohina 2014; Kudryasheva 2014).”

“Strain liquid through cheesecloth, pressing on solids, and transfer to an airtight container or bottle—a 750 ml bottle will accommodate this amount of sbiten.”

“You’ll see pools of kefir, sbiten, kvass, or vzvar in cavities of rocks, borscht and ukha swelling up in tree stumps, stuffed blintzes and pierogi mushrooming in flower clusters or out of tree bark or hanging from leaves, and cream-covered smetannik adorning trees like snow.”

CEFR level