May Day Preparations - part1

Our mayday project started with the idea to make Sima (simple enough, one would think) - a Finnish drink of sugar (loads), lemons, water and fresh yeast. The first problem was locating the dark sugar we needed; Farinsocker or Dark Brown Soft Sugar in English - took us awhile to find a translation for that!

2nd problem...which we did not foresee, was the Quest for fresh yeast.  The shop were we are usually able to find this has unexpectedly shut down, which presented a slight problem and a very long walk. The walk involved pitstops at Waitrose to start, where Nina was directed to Peckhams, (which does not sell fresh yeast). From there the quest took her to different cafes until finally meeting a lovely informative baker, at the always lovely Cafèzique, that pointed out THE PLACE that would for sure sell fresh yeast, across from the street. Arriving at a lovely Polish deli that HAD YEAST. Dried yeast works fine for baking, but with this drink the fresh version was rather essential, because there is no need to be as exact with temperatures. After that there was a very long walk back again, but at least it was sunny (a miracle in itself).

 In the end we got the brewing started for our May Day drink. Stay tuned for part two of May Day preparations - any guesses what it is -leave a comment!