Clotted Cream Ice-Cream

Bastani, the classic Persian ice-cream, is almost impossible to recreate in this country as it calls for sahlab, the extract of an orchid root, and sometimes mastic, or natural gum. These ingredients are occasionally available, but this tome was always meant to be a kitchen-table book rather than a coffee-table book, and so to ‘keep it real’, we’re going to cheat. The following recipe produces a veritable facsimile of a downtown Tehran ice-cream-parlour’s finest.

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