Turkish Delight

Softstuff

betterbargains4u wrote: »

I've tried doing this, but they still look really bad, as the icing sugar/cornflour mix is moist and then just flakes off.
Tastes okay, but I was going to make some for my Mother in Laws birthday, and put in a pretty box.

Give it some time, it will dry out (used to sell towels next to the turkish delight guy on a market in Marmaris!)
The real stuff, which is what the recipe gives you, dries out around the sides and goes pretty chewy. When some has flaked off, roll it in again.

In_Search_Of_Me

also make sure its in a cool room as that will help...

timmmers

I was searching for an online TV station yesterday and came across one of those cooking ones that makes your mouth water where they make thing look quite easy.

This is an Aussie one with different international recipes demonstrated by people from the various countries...but it's not got ingredients or details so you need to watch and get how they make stuff.

There are one or two really easy looking things there that look easy and cheap to make. One being Turkish Delight. I think the guy says he has water, adds sugar...then cornflour...and the rest is clear enough. Not too sure if it's water and sugar he forst says though?

Also there are some South African gooey sweet treats that also look really easy to make...but they don't specify the dough they use? IF anyone knows I'd love to have a go at making those too.

Sweet stuff is always the expensive treat and had alsorts of rubbish in there...making your own has to be better, especially if you have kiddies I bet.

Have a look here under Food Art ..it should start at the KOEksisters South African thingy. I made that african Ginger Beer today as I had the ingredients and it's awesome .

http://player.sbs.com.au/food#/food/features/food_art/playlist/Food-Art-Koeksisters/

t

Consider this to e revenge for the many times you lot have made me hungry on here

JillS_2

timmmers wrote: »

...There are one or two really easy looking things there that look easy and cheap to make. One being Turkish Delight. I think the guy says he has water, adds sugar...then cornflour...and the rest is clear enough. Not too sure if it's water and sugar he forst says though?


Consider this to e revenge for the many times you lot have made me hungry on here

Here's a Turkish Delight recipe from a magazine from ages ago.

makes about 2.25lbs
1.5 lb. loaf sugar
1.5 pts water
.5 level tsp tartaric acid
4 oz. cornflour
8 oz. icing sugar
a little cochineal colouring
juice of half a lemon
.5 tsp triple rose water
3-4 oz icing sugar
1-2 oz cornflour

Place sugar & 1/4 pt water in a heavy pan & stir over gentle heat until sufar has dissolved. Bring temperature to 240 deg. F. Add tartaric acid. Blend cornflour with remaining water, add seived icing sugar. Bring to boil, simmer gently for 3-5 minutes until thickened. Carefully stir prepared syrup in the pan. Boil for 20 minutes, stirring throughout. Add colouring, lemon juice, & rose water. Pour into wetted 7in. square tin, leave to set. sift icing sugar & cornflour on to a sheet of greaseproof paper. Gently dip base of Turkish Delight tin into hot water & quickly turn out on to icing sugar mixture. Cut into even sized squares with a knife dipped into hot water. coat all surfaces in icing sugar mixture. Place on tray, leave overnight. Next day, roll in icing sugar mixture again. Pack squares into a box or tin lined with waxed or greaseproof paper. Best made & eaten within 3 weeks.

I did make it once years ago - turned out pretty nice - but I'm not sure whether it was from this recipe - but it sounds pretty much the same as I remember - but that was back in the days when I owned a sugar boiling thermometer.

JillS_2

Also just discovered Claudia Roden has a recipe in her "A Book of Middle Eastern Food" - which sound more authentic but also seems more complicated & time consuming & uses an ingredient called pulverized mastic which I've not idea what it is or where to get it - but if you wish & it's OK on copyright grounds I'll post it.

Butterfly_Brain

Found this on you tube - the cook is a bit on the strange side but it is good and made me chuckle :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6BM8lo4CNk

timmmers

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

Found this on you tube - the cook is a bit on the strange side but it is good and made me chuckle :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6BM8lo4CNk

A bit on the strange side ?? Well she appears to eat a fair bit of it by the look of her...don't that's sugar she's on there though...that white powder ?

I appear to be short of rosewater ...so better go shopping for that.

..and the bits to make that mexican stuff I stupidly watched made on that site

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Justamum

timmmers wrote: »

Also there are some South African gooey sweet treats that also look really easy to make...but they don't specify the dough they use? IF anyone knows I'd love to have a go at making those too.

Sweet stuff is always the expensive treat and had alsorts of rubbish in there...making your own has to be better, especially if you have kiddies I bet.

Have a look here under Food Art ..it should start at the KOEksisters South African thingy. I made that african Ginger Beer today as I had the ingredients and it's awesome .

http://player.sbs.com.au/food#/food/features/food_art/playlist/Food-Art-Koeksisters/

t

Consider this to e revenge for the many times you lot have made me hungry on here

Koeksisters - bleeugh!!! My South African husband has been nagging me for years to make some. I made him some before we were married (and obviously wanting to impress :rotfl:) and found them very time-consuming. I found a recipe recently for bush koeksisters which were quicker and easier, so I made some last weekend. Personally I can't stand them - very greasy and sugary. It's going to be a long time before I made them again (very heavy on your sugar for making the syrup)

caris

I made my first batch of turkish delight yesterday and poured the mixture into mini shaped silicone cases, then left it ready for setting for removal today, however it wont come out of the moulds:(

Can anyone help me with getting them out please.
Thank you

Vaila

ive never had this problem with my silicone case, maybe warm a butter knife and hold the end with a tea towel, or place the molds in a dish shallowly filled with boiling water ?