I prefer it to our koumiss."

Does the fact that he had his first - "but not his last" - taste of koumiss (fermented mare's milk) in July 1899 have any significance?

"But what's koumiss?"

They are widely used in the production of fermented foods, including dairy products such as yogurt, cheese, butter, buttermilk, kefir and koumiss.

Lactic acid is found primarily in sour milk products, such as koumiss, laban, yogurt, kefir, and some cottage cheeses.

Because they were famous for distilling khara-airag (black koumiss), they were called Kharachin by the Mongols.

Strabo also portrays the peoples of the region as being nomadic, or Hamaksoikoi, "wagon-dwellers" and Galaktophagoi, "milk-eaters" referring, no doubt, to the universal koumiss eaten in historical times.

After hours of street fighting, the result was several people injured and two dead, I. Koumis and S. Kanelopoulou.

Is continuous the route and approximately in 30 minutes is reached at Patia, totumo's koumis' and watermelon's land.

At 7:00 AM he made a forced entry into the Hornsey house of Koumis Constantino, but was fought off after stabbing his arm.

The participating athletes included Nikis Georgiou, Panayiotis Kalogirou, Antonis Totsis, Koumis Kkeses, Kostas Manoli, Nikos Kokkinos, Christofi Tsiakkiros.

One full of koumyss was reserved, and the rest, with the air carefully fastened in, were used to form a floating apparatus.

"Yes, full of koumyss.

This increase was very opportune, for something would soon have been needed to replace the koumyss with which the kibitka had been stored at Krasnoiarsk.

"Koumyss" is a drink made of mare's or camel's milk, and is very sustaining, and even intoxicating; so that Nicholas and his companions could not but congratulate themselves on the discovery.

Twice in the twenty-four hours they were thrown a piece of the intestines of goats grilled on the coals, or a few bits of that cheese called "kroute," made of sour ewe's milk, and which, soaked in mare's milk, forms the Kirghiz dish, commonly called "koumyss."

There is no legal age for consumption of kumiss.

Ordinary kumiss is about 10 percent alcohol, or roughly the strength of wine.

He planned a trip to the southern regions to receive kumiss therapy there.

Kumiss had come a long way since it had been fermented milk of mares.

More important, though, is that horse milk can be fermented to make kumiss, the de facto national beverage.

The Raspayevs make kumiss in the big yurt that serves as their living room and guesthouse.

There he lived till July 1912 among the Kazakh nomads in the steppe, receiving kumiss therapy.

Mr. Raspayev was drinking kumiss.

By the door stands a barrel-sized bag made of cowhide - a kumiss churn, with a well-worn stick jutting from the top.

He made no reply, but tilted the golden jug and gulped down enough stinging kumiss to have made an ordinary man's head swim at once.

"Kumiss," she said.

You make kumiss, you sell kumiss.

Should you have a hankering for fresh kumiss, take the main road south from Kyrgyzstan's capital, Bishkek, to the Teo-Ashoo Pass, about three hours by car.

Making kumiss is a bit like making sourdough bread, Baktogul Raspayeva, the granddaughter, said: one needs a bit of starter, left in the bag from the last batch.

Kumis, also spelled kumiss or koumiss in English (or kumys, see other transliterations and cognate words below under terminology and etymology) is a fermented dairy product traditionally made from mare's milk.

"Here is food you need more than I," she said as she sank down on a divan and with a dainty foot pushed toward him a small gold table on which were chupaties, curried rice, and broiled mutton, all in gold vessels, and a gold jug of kumiss.