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Traditional technology of making Airag in khukhuur
Airag or Kumis in Russian is fermented mare’s milk beverage. This healing and foaming drink produced by fermentation of fresh mare’s milk with natural enzymes in Khukhuur (leather sack). Khukhuur is made from big bull’s hide. Mongols highly value Airag as a magic beverage and perform unique and specific rituals related to Airag.
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KHONUMA
Khonuma is prepared similar to mantu dish with pasta, grind meat, and anion steaming in the special pot for cooking mantu.
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SHIRINI, shinni
Skills of cooking of gam with juice of grape, or mulberry, melon.\n
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HALVOGARI, halvopazi
Making halva (sweetish wheat paste) with flour, sugar, oil and other ingredients. There different kinds of halva.\n
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Mare milk libation ceremony
The libation ceremony starts with horses are gathered and brought to the tethering line at sunrise. At first, the first-born foal is caught and hitched to the tethering line. When catchers finish tethering the foals, they place their lasso poles in row at the back of the ger. All gathered people can then enter the ger and have tea. Then they go out of the ger, where upon the milking of mare begins. The first mare is milked by a man. This is vistage of ancient tradition. After milking the mares, a milk libation ceremony is performed. The general proceeding is the same as other feast proceedings. But their contents are different. It reflects the manner and movement of tethering foals or colts and mare's ferment milk-libation.
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Making of Suun Khuruud /Oblong fritter/
Mongolian people ferment clotted milk from cow, ewe and nanny goat and distil the milk-vodka. The cheese curds are separated from the whey in gauze sack. The separated cheese curds are called aarts. These cheese curds are squeezed in square and sliced into oblong flitters by wire and dried out on the rack. These are called as Suun khuruud (oblong fritters), and the can be kept for a long time. These are dainties not only for young people, but also for old people by their taste and nourishment.
Mongolia -
GANDUM-BIRYON
Traditional fried cookie prepared with wheat, peas, pumpkin seed, sesame and sometime apricot seed.
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NABOT
A kind of candy similar to crystals. It is prepared with sugar, egg and water in a big pot.
Tajikistan -
CHAPOTI, noni tunuk
A kind of thin bread similar to lavash baked in the tanur – national oven. Chappoti is a popular bread of the tableclothes of holidays, celebrations and weddings.
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ORZUK
A traditional kind of cookie prepared with flour, sugar and oil. Orzuk is a special cookie for traditional holidays and celebrations.
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PANIR Paniri khonagi
Home-made cheese which is prepared with milk of goat, sheep or cow.
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SUMANAK, sumalak
Technology of preparation and cook-ing spring halva with germinated wheat, oil, flour. Sumanak is a pastry of Nawruz holyday.
Tajikistan