The Seljuk Turks (1037-1194) made cold or frozen sherbets from clean snow or crushed ice mixed with molasses, and orange, lemon, apricot syrups. Even today, shaved ice is widespread in Anatolia.
Ice cream became widespread in Ottoman society in the 1600s. The Karhane-i Amire met the needs for ice and snow for the palace kitchen, the sultan's summer home and mansions, ice cream shopkeepers, sherbet and custard makers, and hospitals. At the end of the Ottoman Empire, ice cream was the most common offering to foreign dignitaries and guests. The most popular flavour was pistachio.
It is said that Ottoman military officer Enver Pasha gave various kinds of ice cream to top officials of foreign governments right before World War One.
Contemporary Turkey has its own ice cream culture. Istanbul's ice cream vendors promote their stretchy mastic ice cream by going to touristic areas, ringing bells, and playing games with customers. Mastic is a plant resin that gives the ice cream a unique flavour and makes it chewy and stretchy, allowing vendors to play tricks with customers like pretending to give the ice cream to a customer on a stick before pulling it away at the last moment.
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Mesopotamia 3000 BC - Origins of Ice Cream (GCA79WQ)
Egyptian Pharaohs 2500 BC: Sorbet (GCA79WW)
Greeks 500 BC: Nectar of the Gods (GCA79WZ)
China 200 BC: Rice Cream (GCA79WX)
Roman 0 AD: Volcano Snow (GCA79X1)
Inca 1400 AD: Ice Cream (GCA79X5)
India 1500 AD: Kulfi (GCA79X3)
Spanish Ice Cream 1500 AD: Ice Cream Demon (GCA79X6)
Mexico 1500 AD: Volcanic Sorbet rise to Chocolate (GCA79X8)
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Coney Island, New York 1919: Frozen Custard (GCA79XC)
Talenti 1565: Gelato (GCA79XB)