dondurma

Popping a hunk of the dondurma into my mouth, letting the orchid flavor roll around and melt a little, I wondered if people in Ankara would think it was weird that we ate our iced cream with a spoon, sometimes even with a little flimsy wooden stick, sometimes even from a truck with bells.

Dondurma 2010

I cut the dondurma into little cubes with one of my father's hundred or thousand folding knives he'd collected his whole life and placed into a gargantuan toolbox labeled, in perfectly aligned spike tape, FERHAT'S KNIFE COLLECTION.

Dondurma 2010

Or, check out this Salon article about Orchid ice cream and Harold McGee's column on dondurma.

Archive 2007-08-01 Mercedes 2007

In Damascus, the ice cream is kneaded by gloved hands at Bekdache, in Turkey the dondurma is thickened by sahleb, powdered orchid root.

Archive 2007-04-01 Mercedes 2007

The ice cream is made with all milk no cream and is able to stay creamy when frozen because of the thickening powers of sahlep, it even takes on a remarkable stretchy quality and and you'll see vendors kneading and stretching the ice cream at famous ice cream parlors like Bekdache in Damascus or dondurma vendors in Turkey.

Day 10: Orange Blossom Ice Cream Mercedes 2007

In Damascus, the ice cream is kneaded by gloved hands at Bekdache, in Turkey the dondurma is thickened by sahleb, powdered orchid root.

A Homecoming, With Ice Cream Mercedes 2007

The ice cream is made with all milk no cream and is able to stay creamy when frozen because of the thickening powers of sahlep, it even takes on a remarkable stretchy quality and and you'll see vendors kneading and stretching the ice cream at famous ice cream parlors like Bekdache in Damascus or dondurma vendors in Turkey.

Archive 2007-08-01 Mercedes 2007

Or, check out this Salon article about Orchid ice cream and Harold McGee's column on dondurma.

Day 10: Orange Blossom Ice Cream Mercedes 2007

After a protracted explanation, followed by a protracted apology, during which time Nabila let the dondurma melt and the coffee boil down into tractor fuel, what had transpired was perfectly clear.

Skinny Legs and All Robbins, Tom 1990

Other common, delicious Turkish foods are saucy iskender kebap, lentil (mercimek) soup, and desserts like rice pudding (sutlac) or sticky ice cream (dondurma).

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