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"Kettle Ice Cream" or Helado de Paila
Legend has it that Helado de Paila, or, "Kettle Ice Cream," came to be in the Ecuadorian city of Ibarra about 100 years ago. It is solely an Ecuadorian treat. Its ingredients include fruit juice, ice, egg whites, and sugar, mixed up in a copper kettle. It is then frozen by layers of chopped ice and straw piled around it, so that is freezes slowly, being stirred constantly. At the end of this long process, there is a creamy, strong, sherberty ice cream that can be flavored with anything from blackberry to chocolate.