SHARBAT

             1kg of dried apricots, 2liters of water

        Take sun dried apricots (for ex. «qantak» or «isfarak»). Wash out dried apricots with cold water, put in the enameled pan. Fill in with strong boiled water, close with cover. Wrap up with bath towel and leave at 10-20 hours (it is possible in a thermos as well).

        After that, filter out the broth through double cheesecloth, cool it. The turgid apricots serve up separately.

        In folk medicine such broth is recommended at constipations ant to hypertensive persons. The dried apricots also are recommended at heart disease as a potassium source.