Tuesday, April 21, 2009

What animals do Mongolians use to make butter form their milk

What animals do Mongolians use to make butter form their milk?
he Mongolians raise cattle,yak,sheep,goats,horses,donkeys and camels.I know they use all these animals milk to some extent,but which ones do they use for butter production besides yak ? I know it also depends on where they live in Mongolia as far as what animals they have.
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Yak milk is often processed to a cheese called chhurpi in Tibetan and Nepali languages, and byaslag in Mongolia. Butter made of Yaks' milk is an ingredient of the butter tea that Mongolians consume in large quantities and is also used in lamps and made into butter sculptures used in religious festivities. Yaks grunt, and unlike cattle are not known to produce the characteristic bovine lowing sound. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yak Myself, I prefer camel cheese! (Yuk!) .