There have been many ice coolers around the world and now that summers have been felt within our skin then it is time to take out the ice crushes from our kitchen cabinet. Ice that may be combined with different all made ingredients with the heavy freshness of fruits we know and love. So just flick of the “on” button of electric ice crusher or just manually crush some ice, add some fruits and sugar plus the milk, the summer heat can be beat without a cost.
HALO HALO is the greatest conqueror for summer’s heat. For it contains colorful ingredient with a splash of evaporated milk and ube or leche flan. Mais Con Yelo is the second best known ice coolers in the Philippines. Cream style corns and kernel corns with sugar and milk and ice is combined to make this very good ice cooler. Addition to this, Saba or simply banana con yelo where banana are boiled with brown sugar then mixed with milk, pearls and shaved ice. Lastly kids would love the colorful combination of scramble Scramble is originally concoction used an egg beater to make this one.
Sago and gulaman is taken as beverage-dessert with a combination of sago, gulaman and sweet syrup from sugar or used in panocha and of course the famous shaved ice. Some make additional ingredients such as pinipig or gata. These are the most favorites in the Philippines but there are other ice coolers from different countries.
For Malaysian culture, the most famous ice coolers is the “Ais Kacang” which is made with generous service of attap cheese (palm seed), red beans, sweet corn, grass jelly topped wit evaporated milk, coconut milk then with rose syrup and sweet syrup (cola). “Falooda” is a dessert beverage popular in India, Iran, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. It is a mix of rose water syrup, vermicelli, tapioca pearls and milk or water. “Sam bo Luong” is famous in Vietnam, it is made of Chinese pearl barley, dried longan, lotus seeds, seaweeds, red jujubes mixed with sugar and crushed ice.
So summer is beaten not just in the Philippines but also from other countries. Hot weather and ice desserts go grandly together and offering so many choices of recipe so that people can adjust their ice coolers according to their preference and taste.
