Do you know ' Turkish Delight'?

Turkish Delight, lokum, or loukoum is a confection made from starch and sugar. It is often flavored with rosewater and lemon, the former giving it a characteristic pale pink color.

Food historian Reay Tannahill suggests that the Persian confection ahbisa (a sweet jelly) was the ancestor of Turkish rahat lokum, the long name for the sweet. According to the Ali Muhiddin Hacı Bekir Confectioners company of Istanbul, founded in 1777, lokum has been produced in Turkey since the 15th century. Originally, honey and molasses were used as sweeteners, and water and flour were the binding agents. The recipe for lokum as we know it today, using the new ingredients of sugar and starch, was invented and popularized by the Hacı Bekir company during the 19th century.

Lokum was introduced to the west in the 19th century. An unknown Briton became very fond of the delicacy during his travels to Istanbul, and purchased cases of lokum, to be shipped back to Britain under the name Turkish Delight. It became a major delicacy not only in Britain, but throughout continental Europe.

Turkish Delight should not be confused with Turkish Taffy, a packaged nougat candy sold in the United States from the 1940s through the 1980s.

mmmm it is tasty we made it in my country,we called to it raha

thank you moonlight for this nice topic.

yeah, love it!

helal olsu valla aklıma gelmezdi boyle bir konu açmak.

I have to underline its name  Turkish delight !

i said that because in these days, greeks are pretending that they don't know it's a Turkish cultural dessert and they are trying to impound it.

and u can read it even one of the Harry Porter books

 The Turkish word lokum may come from lokma in Turkish or لقوم luqūm, the Arabic plural of لقمة luqma(t) 'morsel' or 'mouthful'. Alternatively, it may have derived from Ottoman rahat hulkum or Arabic راحة الحلقم raḥat al-ḥulqum 'contentment of the throat'. In Libya, for example, it is known as حلقوم ḥalqūm. In Bosnia, its name "rahatluk" clearly relates this etymology.In English, it was formerly called "lumps of delight".

 Thans for sweet topic (Lukma kalyah) Moonlight

This for you sweet thing,also

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCOSWkrmb1E

Sorry if you cann't watch YouTube. In Turkey.

No, i can watch now  and i watched ,too thanks

Turkey has great things and i wanted to show a bit from it

if u loved it, i thank

Show any thing all things from turkey will be interesting

Turkish people like to eat so much, so our food culture is so rich,you can see many fat people here

but i'm not :)

i have a question,too

Do you know 'yoghurt' ? it's like cream, it's made by milk

we will celebrate our religion festival on Tuesday and i will buy lokum 3 kilos.i love it so much.