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.

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

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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.

we all in this area like to eat so much. and the way to man's heart through his stomach.and woman maybe 

Have a good appetite! :))

I've been to Turkey. I have seen the packages with tobacco and they were signed as "Turkish Delight" :)

it's very nice but i hate delicious.. :D thanks for shared