sack-milk, noun

Origin:
See quotation 1913.
obs.
maas sense 1.
1786 G. Forster tr. of A. Sparrman’s Voy. to Cape of G.H. I. 239We went to pay a visit to the community of Hottentots assembled on this spot, who received us very friendly, and invited us to drink some of their sack-milk.
1795 C.R. Hopson tr. of C.P. Thunberg’s Trav. I. 197Here we were refreshed, thirsty as we were, with Hottentots sack-milk, as it is called, which, perhaps, few travellers, unless urged by extreme thirst, will be able to prevail on themselves to taste. It is a very acid, cool, and refreshing milk.
[1828 W. Shaw Diary. 25 Feb.After all the cows had been milked, and the Milk, as usual poured into the leather sacks, we had a good opportunity while they waited for fermentation of the milk to hold Divine Service.]
1913 C. Pettman Africanderisms 417Sack milk,..The earlier colonial name for what is now known as Sour milk or Amasi...It was commonly prepared in a bag made of the skin of a goat or sheep — hence the name.
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