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.