Turkish Delight
Created | Updated May 27, 2002
Turkish Delight is a pink sweet jelly like confection, most of the time covered in chocolate. The remarkable thing about Turkish delight is the it is often marketed as 'ROSE' flavoured, which means that there must be at least one person responsible for eating roses and then seeing if the Turkish delight taste the same.
Now-a-days there are many marketers of ‘Turkish Delight’, but the most famous (because of it's highly successful TV advert) is Fry's (which no longer exist as a stand-alone company, possibly because no one wants to eat sweets that taste like flowers)
Often the last sweet left in the box is a Turkish Delight.
Here is how is make it:
2 cups (1/2 litre) granulated sugar
1 1/4 cups (300 ml) water
1 lemon, the peel cut into strips, the juice squeezed and strained
1 orange, the peel cut into strips, the juice squeezed and strained
4 tablespoons (60 ml) unflavoured powdered gelatine
2 tablespoons (30 ml) confectioners' sugar
1 tablespoon (15 ml) cornstarch
Dissolve the granulated sugar in half of the water over medium heat. Add the strips of lemon and orange peel and the juices. Bring the mixture to the boil and simmer for 15 minutes. Soften the gelatine by soaking it for 5 to 10 minutes in the rest of the water. Add the gelatine to the sugar syrup stirring well, and boil for 10 minutes, until the syrup reaches the thread stage.
Strain the mixture into shallow dampened pan or onto platters, and let it set for 24 hours. Cut the sweets into 1-inch (2 1/2 cm) squares. Sift the confectioners' sugar and cornstarch together into a shallow dish. Roll the sweets in the mixture. Store the squares in boxes with more confectioners' sugar and cornstarch between each layer.
Source: www.wenhamton.freeuk.com
Now-a-days there are many marketers of ‘Turkish Delight’, but the most famous (because of it's highly successful TV advert) is Fry's (which no longer exist as a stand-alone company, possibly because no one wants to eat sweets that taste like flowers)
Often the last sweet left in the box is a Turkish Delight.
Here is how is make it:
2 cups (1/2 litre) granulated sugar
1 1/4 cups (300 ml) water
1 lemon, the peel cut into strips, the juice squeezed and strained
1 orange, the peel cut into strips, the juice squeezed and strained
4 tablespoons (60 ml) unflavoured powdered gelatine
2 tablespoons (30 ml) confectioners' sugar
1 tablespoon (15 ml) cornstarch
Dissolve the granulated sugar in half of the water over medium heat. Add the strips of lemon and orange peel and the juices. Bring the mixture to the boil and simmer for 15 minutes. Soften the gelatine by soaking it for 5 to 10 minutes in the rest of the water. Add the gelatine to the sugar syrup stirring well, and boil for 10 minutes, until the syrup reaches the thread stage.
Strain the mixture into shallow dampened pan or onto platters, and let it set for 24 hours. Cut the sweets into 1-inch (2 1/2 cm) squares. Sift the confectioners' sugar and cornstarch together into a shallow dish. Roll the sweets in the mixture. Store the squares in boxes with more confectioners' sugar and cornstarch between each layer.
Source: www.wenhamton.freeuk.com
