Home made TURKISH DELIGHT

[fahriye]

Home made rose Turkish delight.

[fahriye]

Hi all, Today I am going to share my home made Turkish delight with you. I must admit it wasn't easy to get it right even though I thought it is only sugar, water and cornflour. In Turkey candy shops in every corner full of wonderful and colourful wide varity of Turkish delights so cheap to buy that people never feel the need to make it at home. When I told my family and friends that I made it at home, they found it very amusing as well as giving me some admiration for going to all the bother to make it at home.
I first boiled 1 kg of sugar with 1400 ml water. Then turn the heat to medium and boiled for 1 hour. I mixed 90 g of corn flour with 1 tsp of cream tartar and 350 ml water in a seperate bowl. Adding this mixture into the boiling sugar and water, stiring with awooden spoon. Then gently simmered it for further 1 hour and 10 minutes. Then I added 2-3 drops of rose oil and some natural food colouring. Mixed and simmered for futher 5-7 minutes. If your candy thermometer shows 113C- 115C, is the best consistancy for Turkish delight.
I have the full recipe in detail, in my blog dated 13th May o9.

[samue1eb]

I find making candy to be one of the biggest challenges in the kitchen. This one would be interesting to try. My wife is a big fan of the Chronicles of Narnia series, and they eat turkey delights in the first book.

[Dough Boy]

Hi all, Today I am going to share my home made Turkish delight with you. I must admit it wasn't easy to get it right even though I thought it is only sugar, water and cornflour. In Turkey candy shops in every corner full of wonderful and colourful wide varity of Turkish delights so cheap to buy that people never feel the need to make it at home. When I told my family and friends that I made it at home, they found it very amusing as well as giving me some admiration for going to all the bother to make it at home.
I first boiled 1 kg of sugar with 1400 ml water. Then turn the heat to medium and boiled for 1 hour. I mixed 90 g of corn flour with 1 tsp of cream tartar and 350 ml water in a seperate bowl. Adding this mixture into the boiling sugar and water, stiring with awooden spoon. Then gently simmered it for further 1 hour and 10 minutes. Then I added 2-3 drops of rose oil and some natural food colouring. Mixed and simmered for futher 5-7 minutes. If your candy thermometer shows 113C- 115C, is the best consistancy for Turkish delight.
I have the full recipe in detail, in my blog dated 13th May o9.

Thanks for posting the recipe on your blog. I have not had this since leaving Adana in 1972. I will make an attempt at this so I can share it with my family at Christmas.

çok teşekkür ederim benim arkadaş

[fahriye]

Thanks for posting the recipe on your blog. I have not had this since leaving Adana in 1972. I will make an attempt at this so I can share it with my family at Christmas.

çok teşekkür ederim benim arkadaş

Thank you dough Boy, I am impressed with your Turkish lol!! Well done!!

[Dough Boy]

Thank you dough Boy, I am impressed with your Turkish lol!! Well done!!After 27 years of not using the language, I have lost all but a few words and phrases (which I cannot post here!:eek:). Obviously, they were teh first words I learned, and are not fitting for mixed company.:rolleyes:

[fahriye]

After 27 years of not using the language, I have lost all but a few words and phrases (which I cannot post here!:eek:). Obviously, they were teh first words I learned, and are not fitting for mixed company.:rolleyes:

Hi dough Boy, I am sure you know one or two fhrases in Turkish that only used amongts lads when you were In the ARMY in Turkey lol!!! I can only guess what they would be !!! ha ha. I hope you and your family have the chance to come and visit us in Turkey sometime in future. In the mean time, I am off to London to see our son and daughter for a few days and also do some Xmas shopping as well. I hope some of you guys try my Turkish delight and give me some feed back to say how it turned out. See you all, on next week.

[Stacey]

I absolutely love Turkish Delight!!! Never had any idea it could be so relatively simple to make.

Thank you!

[fahriye]

I absolutely love Turkish Delight!!! Never had any idea it could be so relatively simple to make.

Thank you!

Hi Stacy, just wondering if you had a go, making Turkish delight and if so, how did it turn out?

[Konini]

Be careful with the storage! I made a batch once, it was really, really nice, not to mention easy. However, once in the jars - I got fancy and made pink and green - it all stuck together. I had plenty of icing sugar to keep it separate, but I suppose the 40 odd degrees Celsius Melbourne summer was just too much for it. May be an idea to keep it in the fridge, although I stand to be corrected on doing something wrong.

[fahriye]

Be careful with the storage! I made a batch once, it was really, really nice, not to mention easy. However, once in the jars - I got fancy and made pink and green - it all stuck together. I had plenty of icing sugar to keep it separate, but I suppose the 40 odd degrees Celsius Melbourne summer was just too much for it. May be an idea to keep it in the fridge, although I stand to be corrected on doing something wrong.

Hi Konini, just wanted to say if you mix icing sugar with cornstarch ( say 1 cup
icing sugar, 1/2 cup cornstarch) toss the Turkish delight with this mixture, it won't stick together. For storage it is best in a single layer in a cardboard box, in store cubboard.