Kulfi malai

I always knew when we were going to have ice-cream because my mother would send the bearer down to the ice supplier, and he would ride back in a tonga with a large block of ice, wrapped in gunny sacking, beside him on the seat. The next thing I heard was a series of thumps from the back regions behind the house, as the ice was cracked into small pieces. Indian ice-cream, or kulfi, is quite unlike our soft, whipped ice-cream. It is intensely rich and frozen hard into blocks. A