kumys

Hence it is that I can never recall the kumys, which is so intimately connected with the name of Samara, without also recalling the famine, which is, alas, almost as intimately bound up with it.

Russian Rambles Isabel Florence Hapgood 1889

This course, however, not only deprives them of medical advice and the comforts to which they have been accustomed, but often gives them kumys which is difficult to take because of its rank taste and smell, due to the lack of that scrupulous cleanliness which its proper preparation demands.

Russian Rambles Isabel Florence Hapgood 1889

He works at a horse farm, milking mares to produce kumys, a fermented beverage much enjoyed by Kazakhs.

Sultan of the Steppes 2005

He works at a horse farm, milking mares to produce kumys, a fermented beverage much enjoyed by Kazakhs.

Sultan of the Steppes 2005

We said it was natural, when invalids drank from three to five bottles of the nourishing kumys a day, that they should not require much extra food, and that the management provided what variety was healthy and advisable, no doubt; only we would have liked a choice; and -- what queer steak!

Russian Rambles Isabel Florence Hapgood 1889

In addition to the daily washing they are well smoked with rotten birch trunks, in order to destroy all particles of kumys which may cling to them.

Russian Rambles Isabel Florence Hapgood 1889

As coffee is one of the articles of food which are forbidden to kumys patients, though they may drink tea without lemon or milk, we had difficulty in getting it at all.

Russian Rambles Isabel Florence Hapgood 1889

Coffee, chocolate, and wine are some of the luxuries which must be renounced during a kumys cure, and though black tea (occasionally with lemon) is allowed, no milk or cream can be permitted to contend with the action of the mare's milk unless by express permission of the physician.

Russian Rambles Isabel Florence Hapgood 1889

It is then pressed and dried in the sun, the result being a reddish-brown mass composed of the micro-organisms contained in kumys ferment, casein, and a small quantity of fat.

Russian Rambles Isabel Florence Hapgood 1889

Turn where we would in those kumys establishments, we encountered a patient engaged in assiduous promenading, with a bottle of kumys suspended from his arm and a glassful in his hand.

Russian Rambles Isabel Florence Hapgood 1889