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Traditional technique of preparing the dairy products
  • Manage No, Sortation, Country, Writer ,Date, Copyright
    Manage No EE00001207
    Country Mongolia
    ICH Domain Knowledge and practices about nature and the universe
    Address
    throughout the Mongolia
    Year of Designation 1960
Description Mongolian traditional food is adjusted to the condition of the nomadic way of life. It is divided into milk or white products, meat or red products, and vegetable or green products. During summer and autumns, Mongols prefer to consume various different dairy products from milk of five livestock animals. Dairy products are generally produced by boiling, fermenting, distilling, brewing, extracting, separating or drying. Traditional food is dairy products, meat and green food or grain. Mongols do “Airag” from the mare’s milk, and do milk skim, youghurt, aaruul (oblong), with and orange eezgii, tsagaan tos (derived from the skim), tsorom by milk from sheep, goat and khoormog and aaruul from camel milk. Additionally, smoking, drying and preserving the meat from goat, cow and camel for making borts and shuuz. In addition, khorkhog, boodog, buuz and khuushuur and various different meals are made from sheep, goat and meat from hunting.
Social and cultural significance Traditional dairy products are part of everyday life in modern Mongolia. Wherever you are be that countryside or crowded cities and settlements dairy products made with traditional techniques are sold in every store and used by all. Some of biggest food companies still use these techniques to produce their products.
Transmission method by apprenticeship training and participation in the making process
Community Most of herder families in the country
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Information source
National Center for Cultural Heritage under the Ministry of Culture of Mongolia
http://www.ncch.gov.mn

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