Fw: Fw: [Sca-cooks] one of those fermented mare's milk product*s*

[Phlip]

More for you, Stefan. I've already told both of them that you were looking
for information for the Florilegium.

Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...


> Kumiss, more properly kumys, is fermented mare's milk (or close
> substitute)--the equivalent of beer.  But there are different forms,
> notably white kumys and black kumys--I don't understand the
> distinction.  There are ways of strengthening it, and this is where the
> excitement comes in.  The standard is to distill it, producing airan
> (=airag, and other names).  Possible also to freeze it so the unfrozen
> fraction is more concentrated alcohol-wise.  There should theoretically be
> a yogurt from horse milk, but I don't know any details.
> Buell will know more.
> best--Gene A

Saint Phlip,
CoD

"When in doubt, heat it up and hit it with a hammer."
 Blacksmith's credo.

 If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
cat.

Never a horse that cain't be rode,
And never a rider who cain't be throwed....



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