World Flavors Cookbook

Booza (Damascene Ice Cream)

Name: Booza (Damascene Ice Cream)
Cuisine: Syria
Ingredients: Milk, cream, sugar Mastic resin and salep powder Lots of pistachios

Traditional elastic ice cream made with mastic and salep, pounded by hand in Damascus.

Cuisine: Syria

Ingredients

Mix the dairy with mastic and salep. Freeze while continuously pounding with a heavy wooden mallet to develop the characteristic elastic texture. Roll into a cylinder coated with pistachios.