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And it's not a nog, but there's the thick, creamy Middle Eastern beverage sahlep aka salep or sahlab, which is made with milk and powdered orchid root.
CNN.com 2010
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If you prefer ice cream, try ones made with pistachios or almonds, or even the traditional sahlab offering from Turkey, Lebanon, Syria and Egypt made with mastic and orange-blossom water, sahlab is the ground root tuber of the orchid family that creates a chewy ice cream.
Cookery Book Review: Claudia Roden's Shaun 2009
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Called Booza, it is made from a number of exotic ingredients including sahlab, the ground roots of the orchid orchus mascula, and mastica, the gum from the mastic tree.
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