candy debate

[bob.mornington at wanadoo.fr]

No: HPFGUIDX 13093


This link wilkl tell you everything you need to know about Turkish 
Delight :

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mjw/recipes/candy/turk-del/sds-turk-del.html



--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "yael oren" <yael_pou at h...> wrote:
> Rachel wrote: "Turkish Delight has orange juice in it.  That's 
about all I know about 
> that one.  I found the recipe on a CS Lewis site the other week 
> when looking up info on the Narnia Chronicles."
> 
> Not accurate. Turkish delight, in the base form, is merely powdered 
sugar, water, gelatine (or cornstarch flour) and almonds. All right, 
you can do without the almonds, but it's not the same thing. :)
> 
> To that base, you usually add colouring powder, any fruit juice, 
ground lemon peel or vanilla essence. And almonds. Or pistachios. You 
usually roll it in ground coconut or sugar powder.
> 
> Very sweet. Comes in a variety of firmness from soft marshmallow 
(rare and as sticky as wet marshmallow) to large jelly-bear-like 
substance (more common, almost doesn't stick). The colour is usually 
white with green spots (the pistachios) but very often pink. Other 
colours are available as well - in Turkey, you can find small dolls 
made of colourful Turkish Delight.
> 
> Anything else you wanted to know about this sweet? <G>
> 
> yael
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