Popular nonalcoholic beverages other than fruit juices include Turkish-style coffee, a thin yogurt drink called kefir, and a tea known as salep. |
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At Damas Rose, they make it fresh every day, with milk, salep powder and mastic gum, for elasticity. |
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Salep ice cream was probably discovered when someone accidentally let the salep drink freeze. |
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Genuine salep is expensive and hard to find. |
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The similarity in appearance to testes naturally accounts for salep being considered an aphrodisiac. |
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Street vendors in Istanbul sell ice cream called dondurma that they work into improbably elastic strands, almost like mozzarella, thanks to the addition of salep, a wild orchid root. |
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For her soft-serve goat-milk ice cream, without salep, the flavors include herbs with pistachio, rose, tangy plain and mastic, in addition to dark chocolate, vanilla, coffee and salted caramel. |
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The dried and ground tuber gives a fine white powder, called salep. |
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Salep is derived from the tubers of several species of Orchis. |
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Salep powder thickens during cooking, somewhat like cornstarch. |
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Salep is an extract of Anatolian orchid bulbs. |
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