koumiss

alcoholic beverage
Also known as: airag, kumiss, kumys, kumyss

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  • history of sour cream
    • sour cream
      In sour cream

      …that sour cream originated from koumiss (also spelled kumiss), a slightly alcoholic drink made from mare’s milk and first fermented by the Botai people of what is now Kazakhstan—who may have been among the first humans to tame horses. Mare’s milk has a much higher level of lactose than cow’s…

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diet of

    • Khalkha
      • In Khalkha

        …mare’s milk, or airag, called kumys in Russian (koumiss).

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    • Kyrgyzstan