Bouza bi Haleeb (Milk Ice Cream)

Description
Bouza bi Haleeb (milk ice cream)

Ingredients

 * 1 qt. milk
 * 1½ cups sugar
 * ½ tsp sahlab (cornflower)
 * ¼ tsp mustikah (gum arabic)
 * 1 tsp ma'ez zahr (orange blossom essence)

Directions

 * 1) Dissolve sahlab in one cup of milk.
 * 2) Bring the rest of the milk to a boil with the sugar.
 * 3) Add the cold milk and starch mixture slowly to the hot milk, stirring constantly.
 * 4) Pulverize the mustikah and mix with several teaspoons of sugar.
 * 5) Add to the cooking milk mixture.
 * 6) Boil gently over low fire for 10 minutes, stirring constantly.
 * 7) Remove from fire.
 * 8) Stir occasionally while cooking.
 * 9) Flavor with ma'ez zahr.
 * 10) Freeze either in crank type freezer or in refrigerator trays.
 * 11) When mixture is frozen in refrigerator trays it should be removed and beaten three times during freezing to break up ice crystals.
 * 12) Just before serving, take the trays of ice cream from the freezer unit and allow to rest several minutes in the chilling part of the refrigerator.