Talk:Bakdash (ice cream parlor)

Mastic ice cream
Mastic ice cream is a ice cream with stretched and sticky texture that named after the "Mastic" spice. And is based on Salep or cornflour, minced Mastic, and Rose water.

Mastic ice cream Usually common in the Arab countries and Turkey. Originally there was only Mastic ice cream in Turkey and her recipe kept secret, until the mid 19 century that a Syrian Trader came to Istanbul that stole the secret recipe of the ice cream and bring her to Damascus. there he he developed a local version of the ice cream which give her a light and airy ice cream from the heavy Turkish version of the ice cream and after that he export the ice cream to the Arab countries. because of a very high price of the mastic spice and the difficulty to get it, Ice cream sellers prefer to replace the mastic spice with Glucose.

there are two types of Mastic ice cream:

turkish mastic ice cream - "Dondurma" (in Turkish: "Maraş dondurması" - the ice cream of Maraş city) - she is the original mastic ice cream and she is much more difficult and heavy than the arabic mastic ice cream and more fatty adding more sweet cream or heavy cream with high fat percentage. in past days the villagers people in Kahramanmaraş area that live in the Mountains made it with Snow, Goat milk, Mastic, and "dried Orchidaceae powder" (type of "tubers") who called: "milled". in Kahramanmaraş region in south east turkey made more solid and sticky ice cream becouse the powder of the Orchid flower that grow in this area. this ice cream is so solid that for eating need use a knife and fork arabic mastic ice cream - "Booza" (in Arabic: "الآيس كريم واللبن" - milk ice cream) - it is is fibrous and elastic, in high level of stickiness in which delay the melt in the hot arab countries, also softer than the turkish ice cream. in iraq it is customary to eat the ice cream on square wooden sticks. most common in syria and lebanon. There are ice cream sellers who tend to show tourists where they grind the "mastic resin" in Mortar and pestle Tool while singing and playing.in the old city of damascus there is a famous ice cream store who called "bakdash" that is famous in the arab world and with her "arbic mastic ice cream" and she is popular attraction for tourists especially for tourists from Arab countries.

פארוק (talk) 19:23, 6 December 2010 (UTC)