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Turkish Delight

A sweet made with sugar, water, gelatin, and flavouring.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Hamilton, Margaret · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 1 ingredients
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Turkish Delight

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Soak gelatin in one-half of boiling water until melted.

  2. Boil sugar with the remainder of water for five minutes.

  3. Pour over gelatin, add flavouring, and stir well.

  4. Pour into a wet dish; if desired, colouring may be used.

By Hamilton, Margaret. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures. See the original page.

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What each ingredient does

Gelatin (in the method)
Sets the liquid into a firm, jelly-like texture as it cools.
Sugar (in the method)
Provides sweetness and body to the set jelly.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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