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KOUMISS , milk-wine, or milk brandy
Herodotus
staple
diet
late
account of its valuable medicinal properties. It is generally made from mares' or camels' milk by a process of fermentation set up by the addition to the fresh milk of a small quantity of the finished article. This fermentation, which appears to be of a symbiotic nature, being dependent on the action of two distinct types of organisms, the one a fission fungus, the other a true yeast, eventuates in the conversion of a part
sugar
alcohol
alcohol
sugar
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