Noun
Pronunciation: XXX
Skin straps for lmala that act as handles.
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mparuai
Noun
Pronunciation: XXX
Thread for repairing the lmala, especially for fastening the skin collar.
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nchoni
Noun
Pronunciation: XXX
Skin.
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kerarang’u
Noun
Pronunciation: XXX
Bleaching the inside of a lmala.
Kerarang’u is what some woods do to the inside of a lmala — turn it a whitish color.
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lukupuri
Noun
Pronunciation: loo-koo-poo’-ree
Carved wooden cap or lid for a lmala.
The lukupuri is made of an elegantly carved wood. Outside of a tribal area, the Samburu would be recognized as high-end carvers. The lukupuri is elegant and thin-walled. It becomes very smooth and soft because it is handled often and gets butterfat on it. The rim of the cup is very thin, closer to the thinness of a glass than it is to a ceramic mug.
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lmala ngoiti
Noun.
Pronunciation: luh-mahl’-uh ehn-go-ee’-tee
Small lmala used to collect blood from a cow. See kule njuloti for a description of how blood is collected from a cow.
Blood is collected in the ngoiti and mixed with milk to make the hearty, strengthening drinks kule njuloti and kule saroi. Young boys also can use the ngoiti for milk.
Description
Capacity: about 1 to 1 1/2 cups
Cylindrical wooden vessel with a detached lid.
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Processes for Sour Milk
This is still in process — jan 24, 2024
Start with sour milk. Naowato stage.
Breaks into curds and whey. The curds retain the name Kule naowato and the whey is called ngarro.
You either drink it, give it to the dogs, or throw it away, depending on circumstances. 9This was the same in Europe. )
Now, we have the kule noawato, without the water. This is then put into a churn, a container to shake, and that makes ngorno, butter.
The butter is melted to form ghee, lksich.
The water that breaks from the ngorno is then cooked to make raging
nkeisiich
Noun.
Pronunciation: n-kee’-sitch.
Ghee.
Ghee.
After ngorno is in the form of butter, then it is slowly melted to make ghee. When you cook nkeisiich, you get ranganya.
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ranganya
Noun
Pronunciation: [roll the ‘r’] rahn-gahn’-ya
Caramelized cheese made from cooking ngorno curds.
This sweet, brown cheese is made by cooking nkeisiich (buttermilk) to the point it begins to caramelize. Ranganya is related to the Norwegian whey cheeses of gjetost (made from goat milk) and mysost (made from cow milk). Like these Scandinavian cheeses, ranganya is sweet. It is usually fed to Samburu children.
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