Indian ice cream (Alaska)
Alaskan Indian ice cream is a dessert made of dried fish, dried moose or caribou meat and fat and berries or mild sweeteners such as roots of Indian potato or wild carrot, mixed and whipped with a whisk or formerly hand made by Alaskan Athabaskans. The most common recipes for Indian ice cream consist of dried and pulverized moose or caribou tenderloin that is blended with moose fat until the mixture is light and fluffy. It may be eaten unfrozen or frozen, and in the latter case it somewhat resembles commercial ice cream.
Both akutaq and Indian ice cream are also known as native ice cream or Alaskan ice cream in Alaska. Not to be confused with Canadian Indian ice cream of First Nations in British Columbia and kulfi from the Indian Subcontinent of Asia.
The "ice cream songs" used to be sung during the preparation of Alaskan Athabascan Indian ice cream.Native names
