Americans Try Turkish Delight From Turkey! Taste Test & Review!

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Today we try Turkish Delight for the second time! After getting some tips from our Turkish friend it was time to attempt this desert again!

Turkish delight, lokum or rahat lokum and many other transliterations[3] (Ottoman Turkish: رَاحَة الْحُلْقُوم‎ rāḥat al-ḥulqūm, Turkish: Lokum or rahat lokum, from colloquial Arabic: راحة الحلقوم‎ rāḥat al-ḥalqūm, Azerbaijani: /lɑːtiɡum/)[1] is a family of confections based on a gel of starch and sugar. Premium varieties consist largely of chopped dates, pistachios, and hazelnuts or walnuts bound by the gel; traditional varieties are often flavored with rosewater, mastic, Bergamot orange, or lemon. The confection is often packaged and eaten in small cubes dusted with icing sugar, copra, or powdered cream of tartar, to prevent clinging. Other common flavors include cinnamon and mint. In the production process, soapwort may be used as an emulsifying additive.

The origin of the confection is not well established, but it is known to have been produced in Turkey as early as the late 1700s, hence its name.The exact origin of these sweets is yet to be definitively determined; however, "lokum" comes from the Arabic Halkum or Al-Halkum. In the Arab world, Turkish delights are called rāḥat al-ḥulqūm (رَاحَة الْحُلْقُوم) which means "Throat Comfort".

According to the Hacı Bekir company, the sweets as they are known today were developed by Bekir Efendi, named Hacı Bekir, after performing the Hajj. He moved to Istanbul from his hometown Kastamonu and opened his confectionery shop in the district of Bahçekapı in 1777.[4] The company still operates under the founder's name.[citation needed]

Suggesting a Persian origin, Tim Richardson, a historian of sweets, has questioned the claim of Hacı Bekir to be the creator of Turkish Delight, writing that "specific names and dates are often erroneously associated with the invention of particular sweets, not least for commercial reasons".[2][5]

Ottoman confectionery was originally sweetened with honey and molasses, using water and flour as the binding agents, with rosewater, lemon peel and bitter orange as the most common flavors (red, yellow and green). Hacı Bekir introduced the use of glucose in 1811, shortly after it had been discovered by Gottlieb Kirchhoff.

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[stampamphora]

cool food to try out, never ate this before. I don't think I would like the coffee flavored one though.

[jilltomasso]

Mmmm...where did you get those? The pistachio filled one looks good!!