Misc

Yakh dar behesht

There are two distinctly different food items called "yakh dar behesht."  One is the iced drink very similar to "Icee," which is made with crushed ice and fruit syrup.  In Northern Iran this is a favorite dessert.

There is another "yakh dar behesht" which the cook in this video is making.  This, too, is a desert very much like "Fereni" or when it's made thick, it resembles "masghati."  The recipe for the kind in the video can be found here:

//www.khoshkhorak.com/ShowRecipe.asp 

مسقطی

مسقطی و یا لوزی که بعد از سفت شدن آنرا بصورت لوزی میبرند. آنچه در زمستان میخورند "لرزانک" است و همینطور برف وشیره. یخ در بهشت مال تابستان است.

Ey, baba--Let me tell you about the real YDB

God bless Asghar agha in Meydoon Ekhtiarieh back around 1975. He had this cart with a bucket in the middle full of some secret liquid (made up mostly of dye, sugar, and Joob water probably!). The bucket was embedded within a bed of salt inside a larger bucket. He would twirl the inner bucket against the layer of salt surrounding it. Soon the liquid would jell up, and 2 rials later there I was: crunching and gulping Yakh Dar Behesht, getting a blinding brain freeze, and being the coolest 15 year old, literally!

This not yakh dar behesht

Yakh dar behesht is actually same as slush here they sell in 7-11 convenient stores. It comes in different color/flavor.