Mastic and Cardamon Ice Cream

This is is a very unusual Ice Cream, a distinctive refreshing taste well worth trying, it comes from Cyprus. You can get the gum mastic from many delis.


1tbsp green cardamon pods
300mls milk
300mls double cream
1 cinnamon stick
85gms castor sugar
100mls rose water
1tsp mastic gum + 1 tsp sugar ground to a powder
200mls evaporated milk


Grind cardamon pods remove husks and crush seeds till a powder

Boil the milk and double cream with ground cardamon and a cinnamon stick
until 1/3 volume

Boil sugar ( 85gms caster) and 100mls Rosewater and allow to cool

Combine Rosewater, cream mixture and Evaporated milk stir in Mastic and sieve out the solids

Place in fridge to cool

When cool either place in your ice cream maker and let it do the work

Or

Place in freezer and whisk every half hour to avoid crystals forming