koumiss

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koumiss

alcoholic beverage

Also known as: airag, kumiss, kumys, kumyss

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- sour cream
  Origins
  …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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  …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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