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Yogurt Drink

'AYRAAN

        1 pt. laban (yoghurt)
        1 cup cold water
        Salt to taste
Buy yoghurt or laban prepared from whole milk. Lift off the yellow crust of cream on the top. Mix the rest of the yoghurt with the water and salt in an electric blender, or beat well together using a wooden spoon. Serve well chilled.


(From Food from the Arab World Marie Karam Khayat and Margaret Clark Keatinge, Khayat's, Beirut 1959)

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