They drink a beverage called kumiss, which is fermented mare's milk.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference

We never drink milk, that's where kumiss comes from.    From Wordnik.com.  [Away With Rum (5) (Song of the Temperance Union)] Reference

And at every halt they passed from hand to hand the skin bag of kumiss.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Defiant Agents] Reference

This was kumiss, a fermented mare's milk which was the wine and water of the steppes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Defiant Agents] Reference

He also decided not to tell Lorenzo that in private Baibars enjoyed the Tartar drink kumiss, made from the fermented milk of mares.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference

Buttermilk, kumiss, and matzoon are often agreeable and beneficial to the sick; by some, they are more easily digested than whole milk.    From Wordnik.com.  [School and Home Cooking] Reference

It turned out that the etymology of the indigenous name Pishpek was unknown; the nearest Kyrgyz word was bishkek 'whisk with which kumiss is stirred.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: BISHKEK/PISHPEK.] Reference

As no-one knew the etymology of the old name, Pishpek, they chose a new one, the nearest word phonetically in Kyrgyz: bishkek, which means "kumiss-whisk".    From Wordnik.com.  [Doing the tell] Reference

It says the name goes back to a term meaning 'place below the mountains', which popular etymology or eggcornism converted into the word for a kumiss 'churn'.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: BISHKEK/PISHPEK.] Reference

And at some point after that, they started regularly collecting the milk and using it, either to feed motherless children, or to process it into yogurt, kumiss, kefir, and other milk products.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lactase Gene: A Precursor to Cultural Evolution?] Reference

Burke's book is, according to the subtitle, "a complete and practical treatise on the manufacture of commercial cultured buttermilks of all types - lactic, Bulgarian, acidophilus, kefir, kumiss, yogurt.".    From Wordnik.com.  [7 Fermented Milks Past, Present, and Future] Reference

The mares were milked, and from the milk kumiss was made.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Men Live By and Other Tales] Reference

It was the women who prepared kumiss, and they also made cheese.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Men Live By and Other Tales] Reference

The guests ate the mutton, had some tea, and then began drinking kumiss.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twenty-Three Tales] Reference

When we come in, dinner or supper is ready and there is kumiss to drink.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twenty-Three Tales] Reference

They gave him tea and kumiss, and had a sheep killed, and gave him mutton to eat.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Men Live By and Other Tales] Reference

Then they began drinking kumiss again, and offered Pahom some tea, but he would not wait.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Men Live By and Other Tales] Reference

Whoever might come, there was always kumiss, tea, sherbet, and mutton to set before them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twenty-Three Tales] Reference

He took the kumiss-cure in 1871 and 1872, and at last, in 1873, the whole family went there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reminiscences of Tolstoy] Reference

Fattening up horses for food is mentioned, and washing the feet with kumiss -- both incidents purely Tartar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ancient China Simplified] Reference

I asked for kumiss and a pony of Benedictine, as my stone boudoir made me feel rocky, but it has not yet been sent up.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X)] Reference

Hired labourers tended his flocks and herds, and hired women milked his mares and cows, and made kumiss, butter and cheese.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twenty-Three Tales] Reference

When 200 days out he came to the place where his feet were washed with kumiss; this place is frequently mentioned in history; even.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ancient China Simplified] Reference

A Cap of kumiss was handed to Elias; he wished the guests and his master good health, bowed, drank a little, and put down the cup.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twenty-Three Tales] Reference

'Babay;' (which in the Bashkir tongue means 'Grandfather') 'come in and have a cup of kumiss with us, and call your wife here also.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twenty-Three Tales] Reference

In the Caucasus I had kephir, and I used to carry kephir grains, and in America I, at least, could have kumiss or Ilya Ilich's lait caille.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mystic Isles of the South Seas.] Reference

In summer you can work in my melon-garden as much as your strength allows, and in winter feed my cattle; and Sham-Shemagi shall milk my mares and make kumiss.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twenty-Three Tales] Reference

As they were sitting with their host on down cushions on a carpet, conversing and sipping kumiss from their cups, Elias, having finished his work passed by the open door.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twenty-Three Tales] Reference

Morning and evening they used to tie the mares up outside the kibitkas, where they were milked by veiled women, who then hid themselves from the sight of the men behind a brilliant chintz curtain, and made the kumiss.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reminiscences of Tolstoy] Reference

I advise those, therefore, who wish to be well whilst doing the Continent, to carry, especially in France, as I did, a large, thick-set bottle of milk, or kumiss, with which to take the wire edge off one's whistle whilst being yanked through the Louvre.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VI. (of X.)] Reference

In it Rubruck gives a clear account of the condition of China, of the characteristics and technical skill of its inhabitants, of their peculiar writing, and of the manufacture of silk; he also mentions paper money, printing, the division into castes, rice brandy, kumiss, speaks of the physicians who diagnosed diseases by the pulse, and prescribed rhubarb.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference

(named with the same sounds, but not with the same characters) who washed the Emperor's feet with kumiss is also told by Lieh-tsz.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ancient China Simplified] Reference

'Would the Khan prefer Rice Wine or kumiss?'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Effective use of detail in world-building] Reference

THMBlog High School Musical 3 - Now or Never (Zac Efron) http://bit. ly/9zMrVt ninetpm ini Zac Efron pake kumiss!!! http://justjaredjr. buzznet.com/photo-gallery/366638/zac-efron-mustache-01/.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference

You may put out some kumiss and biscuit for me. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays] Reference