sour milk, noun phrase

maas sense 1.
1838 F. Owen Diary (1926) 101He asked..whether we wanted food, and at my request sent for the common beverage ‘amas’ or sour milk, a great refreshment in these warm climes.
1860 A.W. Drayson Sporting Scenes 227I stayed seven days at the kraal; after the third day I had no bread or biscuit, but merely rotated Indian corn and meat, with the amasi and ubisi (sour and sweet milk).
1878 T.J. Lucas Camp Life & Sport 93They are vegetarians, living almost entirely on Kaffir corn and sour milk left to ferment in skins until it becomes thick, despising it when sweet as unfit for grown men.
1897 F.W. Sykes With Plumer in Matabeleland 104Calabashes containing Kaffir beer, sour milk (amasi), or mutton fat rendered down.
1980 S. Afr. Digest 16 May 16This porridge is the favourite of the Zulu, Swazi and Xhosa people who traditionally served it with sour milk (amasi) or wild green vegetable stew.
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