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Dondurma

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Dondurma is the Turkish name for ice cream. Outside the Middle East the term typically refers specifically to mastic ice cream, often believed to originate in the city and region of Kahramanmaras and known there as maras dondurma. It is made from cream, salep, mastic, and sugar. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Classification
Dietary Suitability
Contains Dairy or Egg 1
Origin Region
Turkey 2
Connections

In Cuisine

Turkish Cuisine, Cuisines
Source Dondurma (Wikipedia)

Uses Ingredient

Cream, Ingredients
Source Dondurma (Wikipedia)
Sugar, Ingredients
Source Dondurma (Wikipedia)
Whipped Cream, Ingredients
Source Dondurma (Wikipedia)
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Originated In

Turkey

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Source Dondurma (Wikipedia)
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1. Dondurma (Wikipedia)
  • Introduction
    This ice cream is made from cream, salep (the ground-up tuber of an orchid), mastic (plant resin), and sugar.
  • Article text
    Food historian Priscilla Mary Işın wrote in Ottoman Culinary Dictionary that it is unknown when salep-based milk dondurma was first made, though she notes that the earliest recipe dates back to 1882.
  • Introduction
    Dondurma is the Turkish name for ice cream, while Booza (Arabic: بُوظَة, romanized: Būẓah, lit. 'ice cream') is the Arabic name for ice cream.
  • Uses Ingredient: Sugar, Infobox main_ingredient field: Cream, whipped cream, salep, mastic, sugar
  • Uses Ingredient: Cream, Infobox main_ingredient field: Cream, whipped cream, salep, mastic, sugar
  • Uses Ingredient: Whipped Cream, Infobox main_ingredient field: Cream, whipped cream, salep, mastic, sugar
  • In Cuisine: Turkish Cuisine, Lead section
    Dondurma is the Turkish name for ice cream
  • In Group: Shaved Ice and Frozen Desserts, Lead paragraph
    Dondurma is the Turkish name for ice cream, while Booza (Arabic: بُوظَة, romanized: Būẓah, lit. 'ice cream') is the Arabic name for ice cream.
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2. Dondurma (Wikidata)
P495 (country of origin): Turkey
Quote, P495 (country of origin): Turkey
Turkey
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