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[[File:Turkish_Delight.jpg|thumb|Turkish delight.]]'''Turkish delight''', '''lokum''' or '''rahat lokum''' and many other transliterations (Ottoman Turkish: رَاحَة الْحُلْقُوم rāḥat al-ḥulqūm, Turkish: Lokum or rahat lokum, from colloquial Arabic: راحه الحلقوم rāḥat al-ḥalqūm) is a family of confections based on a gel of starch and sugar. | [[File:Turkish_Delight.jpg|thumb|Turkish delight.]]'''Turkish delight''', '''lokum''' or '''rahat lokum''' and many other transliterations (Ottoman Turkish: رَاحَة الْحُلْقُوم rāḥat al-ḥulqūm, Turkish: Lokum or rahat lokum, from colloquial Arabic: راحه الحلقوم rāḥat al-ḥalqūm) 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 mostly flavored with rosewater, mastic, Bergamot orange, or lemon. | Premium varieties consist largely of chopped dates, pistachios, and hazelnuts or walnuts bound by the gel; traditional varieties are mostly flavored with rosewater, mastic, Bergamot orange, or lemon. | ||
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In the production process, soapwort may be used as an emulsifying additive. | In the production process, soapwort may be used as an emulsifying additive. | ||
== Fiction cross-reference == | == Fiction cross-reference == | ||
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* [[Tar-Baby 9000]] | * [[Tar-Baby 9000]] | ||
* [[Turpentine delight]] | * [[Turpentine delight]] | ||
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== External links == | == External links == | ||
Revision as of 11:01, 14 June 2016
Turkish delight, lokum or rahat lokum and many other transliterations (Ottoman Turkish: رَاحَة الْحُلْقُوم rāḥat al-ḥulqūm, Turkish: Lokum or rahat lokum, from colloquial Arabic: راحه الحلقوم rāḥat al-ḥalqūm) 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 mostly 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.
In the production process, soapwort may be used as an emulsifying additive.
Fiction cross-reference
Forbidden Ratio and Gnotilus use this piece of Turkish delight with cream and lemon as a symbol of their crime team.
Tar-Baby 9000 uploading Turpentine delight into Brer Rabbit.
Nonfiction cross-reference
External links
- Turkish delight @ wiki.karljones.com
- Turkish delight @ Wikipedia