🇳🇴 How to Make Solbærtoddy

Craving Solbærtoddy? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Solbærtoddy at home, in about 10 min, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• 6 tbsp blackcurrant syrup (solbærsirup)
• 500ml water
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 2 thin slices of lemon
• optional: a star anise

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Heat the water with the cinnamon and star anise to a bare simmer and hold it 5 minutes so the spice has time to give something up.
2. Take it off the heat before adding the syrup. Boiled blackcurrant turns dull and slightly stewed, and the point of solbærtoddy is that bright sharp edge.
3. Stir in the syrup, taste, and adjust — it should be tart enough to make you blink, not squash-sweet.
4. Pour into glasses through a strainer, add a lemon slice, and drink it hot.
5. This is what Norwegian children are given when they come in from the snow, and what adults drink with a cold. The alcoholic version exists; this is not it.