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Text: Natalia Remmer

THE HISTORY OF THE ICE CREAM - THE MOST SUMMER Dainty - Counts Over Five Thousand Years and is inextricably linked to the hot Arabian countries. They say that in Baghdad, Beirut, Damascus and Cairo, they once made the best ice cream in the world.

“He who has money will even have ice cream in hellfire” (Arabic proverb)

It all started with fruit juices mixed with ice, the best way to freshen up in ancient times was simply not to be found. By the way, the Arabic name "Sharbat", or sorbet, has been entrenched in such a dessert since then. According to legend, the famous traveler Marco Polo brought the recipe for delicacies from the Arab East: since then it has firmly entered the menu of European aristocrats.

With ice cream, in fact, many legends are associated. For example, in 780 AD e. Caliph Al Mahdi was able to deliver to Mecca a whole caravan of camels loaded with mountain snow. Another no less striking fact cited in the writings of the Persian traveler Nassiri-Khozrau states that in 1040 AD e. snow for drinks and ice cream was delivered daily to the table of the Cairo Sultan from the mountainous regions of Syria. In the United Arab Emirates, another fashion trend has appeared - camel milk ice cream: low-calorie and containing many useful trace elements. Two emirate companies, Al Nassma and Al Ain Dairy, immediately became the "leaders" in the production of such a product.

Buza is considered to be real Arabian ice cream: it is made in milk, without eggs and cream, and thickened with salep - the tubers of wild orchids crushed into powder. It is viscous, like dough, and therefore practically does not melt.

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