182 TORNEA. 



people and old women beg or buy it, a 

 small bottle-full at a time. To one pot of 

 sour milk they add a fourth part of Syra ; 

 and these together have the taste of what 

 they term Filbunke, which is sour milk 

 with the cream on, just beginning to fer- 

 ment, and of which they make Servet- 

 mjolk; (see p. 150.) 



Thick milk (perhaps Mesosmör, see vol. i. 

 p. 243,) is often kept in barrels till winter, 

 as is the meal made of fir-bark, when both 

 serve for winter provision. 



Si/ra is so very sour as not to be eatable 

 by itself. When they have no milk to di- 

 lute it with, they add an equal quantity of 

 water to the Si/ra, and mix the whole with 

 flummery, which mixture they prefer to 

 small beer. 



Butter is now and then made of goat's 

 milk ; but it is very strong, and quite as 

 white as that made of the milk of the 

 rein-deer. 



