Elza reminisces about how her family celebrated Tsagan Sar when she was small: It was the most important holiday. On the 28th lunar day, we cleaned all the things, on the 29th we tidied up the house and hung up all the clothes on a rope, and on the 30th we made food and waited for the holiday. We also sprinkled vodka into the fire and had dinner. As I was small, I remember little. On the first day of Tsagan Sar we shared candies and biscuits and paid a visit to other families. Our father played the mandolin well, and everyone loved to welcome him as their guest. I remember how my father played, and the old women sang songs. They also made milk vodka, and everyone drank it. And we, children, ate milk sediment left on the sides of the boiler where vodka was made. It was very delicious. There were 12 children in my family, and now I am the only one left. I also remember that biscuit varieties such as shovun (bird) and temyan (camel) were not supposed to be made for Tsagan Sar. It is Derbets who make these varieties. For offerings to gods we used tselvg (the sun) biscuits. Khorkha (insects)and khuts (ram) varieties of biscuits were used for presents. Khuts, for example, was given to men only. People also made jola (rope) biscuits. In general, there were about 6 varieties of biscuits that were used for presents. Since there was no sunflower oil available, we fired biscuits in mutton fat.