Kumiss

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Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

One quart skim milk, two tablespoons sugar, one-fifth yeast cake.
Heat the milk in a double boiler.
Dissolve the yeast in a little water and mix it with the sugar and lukewarm milk.
Put the mixture into strong bottles and cork them tightly and tie down the corks with a strong twine.
Shake the bottles thoroughly and place in a refrigerator to allow the mixture to ferment slowly.
After three days lay the bottles on their sides;
turn occasionally.
Five days are required to perfect the fer- 210 pre[sbytekian cook book mentation, and then kumiss is at its best.
— Elizabeth Frances GrC'Cne, Drexel Institute, Philadelphia.