Kumis

As indicated above, kumis is usually served cold or chilled.

The main methods of treatment are medication, diet, and kumis.

From this was made the sanatorium's therapeutic beverage - kumis.

Surgical methods of treatment and more effective use of kumis were developed here.

Even in the areas of the world where kumis is popular today, mare's milk remains a very limited commodity.

According to other sources he died by accidentally drinking poisoned kumis intended to kill someone else.

It is slightly inferior in its medicinal properties to natural mare's kumis.

Today, the kumis is made from cow's milk.

Fermented mare's milk, known as kumis, is the national drink of Kyrgyzstan.

In Asia, the saba is a horsehide vessel used in the production of kumis.

During the holiday season up to 45,000 bottles of kumis were produced, not only for use by the sanatorium but also for sale.

The popular Japanese soft drink Calpis models its flavor after the taste of kumis.

Wine was poured, beer and kumis.

It is similar to kumis.

The mares are usually used for milk, which locals ferment and turn into kumis, a major staple of their diet.

A Tatar tribesman tried it that second night-ferocious, drunk on kumis and dangerous with it.

Some of these products include sour cream, yogurt, cheese, buttermilk, viili, kefir, and kumis.

The nomads also make an alcoholic beverage, called Kumis, from horse milk, although the fermentation (food) process reduces the amount of lactose present.

Strictly speaking, kumis is in its own category of alcoholic drinks because it is made neither from fruit nor from grain.

Products collected from living horses include mare's milk, used by people with large horse herds, such as the Mongols, who let it ferment to produce kumis.

In the 12th century, the nomadic Mongols carried food made up of several varieties of milk (kumis) and meat (horse or camel) during their journeys.

The newspapers announcing the opening of the health resort noted that medicinal kumis (fermented horse milk) was to be a feature of the therapeutic regime.

Those shepherds prize fermented mare's milk drink kumis; a tool used in its production lends its name to the country's capital city, Bishkek.

The place is also known as a balneological resort for its mineral waters, salt, mud, and brine baths, and its kumis cures.

The famous Russian writer Leo Tolstoy in A Confession spoke of running away from his troubled life by drinking kumis.