Kumis

Some scientists think that yoghurt's predecessor was a fermented milk drink called "kumis". ❋ Unknown (2005)

p = Product&pid = 57 calling kumis alcohol mixed with horse milk is a bit of insult, there's no mixing with alcohol, it gets there naturally, as in bear for example. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They also make yogurt, kumis and gallons of arequipe there. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They make the popular, mild doble crema cheese, plus yogurt and kumis, and they also bag milk (milk is mostly sold in bags here). ❋ Unknown (2010)

The friendly proprietor gave us all yogurt or kumis (something that to me tastes much like yogurt) and we thanked him and departed. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A Tatar tribesman tried it that second night — ferocious, drunk on kumis and dangerous with it. ❋ Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- (2003)

It was Rushad himself who would bring the opium tincture to the festal hall, late in the proceedings, and see it dispersed among the myriad pitchers of beer and kumis. ❋ Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- (2003)

The 'strengthening kumis', the ambrosia of the Yakut gods, does not run dry in the wooden vessels, for luxuriant grass covers the ground, and cows and mares give abundant milk. ❋ Else C. M. Benecke (N/A)

Owing to this consideration I was always offered the best milk and kumis, and when the old woman handed me a jug she carefully wiped it with her fingers first, or removed every trace of dirt with her tongue. ❋ Else C. M. Benecke (N/A)

One day when I called in passing to drink my kumis, I found the ❋ Else C. M. Benecke (N/A)

Cold milk and kumis can be had in all these yurtas. ❋ Else C. M. Benecke (N/A)

Every one considers that shameful and brutal which Schuyler relates of the Kirghiz in times of tempest, -- to send out the women and the aged females to hold fast the corners of the _kibitka_ [tent] during the storm, while they themselves continue to sit within the tent, over their _kumis_ [fermented mare's-milk]. ❋ Leo Tolstoy (1869)

This was kumis - mare's milk - another local delicacy that was rumoured to cure tuberculosis and, like every curious drink all over the world, have aphrodisiac qualities. ❋ Unknown (2010)

My companions raised their glasses of kumis and I followed suit. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I started to wonder whether kumis might have hallucinatory qualities? ❋ Unknown (2010)