Russian Tea(national Drink Of Russia)

Total Time: 10 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 5 mins

Ingredients

• 2 black tea bags (i use decaf)
• 1 cup water
• 1 -2 teaspoon jam (your choice-blackberry comes to mind, raspberry? the possibilities are endless)
• sugar
• lemon
• honey

Recipe

• 1 bring water to a boil. turn off heat and add tea bags. let steep about 10-15 minutes. this is the concentrate.
• 2 pour desired amount of concentrate into a cup and mix it with hot water; thus, one can make one’s tea as strong as one wants, according to one’s taste. add some jam to the cup and stir.
• 3 variation:.
• 4 sugar, lemon,or honey can be added freely instead of the jam if you like.