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Do you know ' Turkish Delight'?

11:43 AM Sep 27 2008 | Reply

mooonlight

mooonlight

Turkey

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.

 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 raat al-ulqum '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".

 

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

Madonna's 2008 album Hard Candy has a track called "Candy Shop" with the lyrics "I've got Turkish delight, baby, and so much more."

 

12:13 PM Sep 27 2008 | Reply

talknow

talknow

Jordan

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

thank you moonlight for this nice topic.

12:23 PM Sep 27 2008 | Reply

oonah

oonah

Belgium

yeah, love it!

12:23 PM Sep 27 2008 | Reply

ozhan

ozhan

Turkey

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

12:39 PM Sep 27 2008 | Reply

hakimi

hakimi

Yemen

 

 

 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 raat al-ulqum '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)Tongue out Moonlight

This for you sweet thing,also

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

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

01:11 PM Sep 27 2008 | Reply

mooonlight

mooonlight

Turkey

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

 

01:12 PM Sep 27 2008 | Reply

mooonlight

mooonlight

Turkey

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

if u loved it, i thank Smile

01:24 PM Sep 27 2008 | Reply

hakimi

hakimi

Yemen

Show any thing all things from turkey will be interesting

01:27 PM Sep 27 2008 | Reply

mooonlight

mooonlight

Turkey

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

but i'm not :)

 

01:28 PM Sep 27 2008 | Reply

mooonlight

mooonlight

Turkey

i have a question,too

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

01:33 PM Sep 27 2008 | Reply

gameover11

gameover11

Turkey

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