The stories behind Turkeys huge variety of sweets and puddings are as fascinating as their multiplicity of flavours. This riveting exploration of their history and role in Turkish culture is a voyage of adventure, taking us from the sultans palace to the homes of ordinary people in Turkeys villages and towns, and beyond to Central Asia, Persia, Arabia, Egypt and the Levant. This is the land of Turkish delight perfumed with rosewater and musk, rose jam, whose praises were sung by Rumi, asure, zerde tinted with saffron, baklava filled with nuts, clotted cream or cheese, milk puddings and helvas, strings of nuts dipped in grape syrup, lollipops in the shape of animals and model gardens built of sugar carried in wedding processions. The first study of Turkish confectionery ever to be published, Sherbet and Spice offers a rare look at the evolution of sweets from the non-European angle, based on many Turkish sources little known outside Turkey that lend a new dimension to the subject.
1 ?eker - Sugar 2 Nobet ?ekeri - Sugar Candy 3 Peynir ?ekeri - Pulled Sugar 4 Kudret Helvas? - Manna 5 Confectioners and Confectionery Shops 6 Sugar Sculpture 7 Akide - Boiled Sugar Drops 8 A??z Miski - Musk Lozenges 9 Misk - Musk 10 Badem ?ekeri - Sugared Almonds 11 ?erbetlik ?eker - Sherbet Sugar 12 Macun 13 Cevirme - Fondant 14 Recel - Preserves 15 Helva: Home-made varieties 16 Helva: commercial varieties 17 Keten Helva - Pi?maniye 18 Helva Sohbeti - Helva Parties 19 Sucuk and Kofter 20 Pelte 21 Lokum - Turkish Delight 22 Gullac 23 Baklava 24 Kaday?f 25 A?ure 26 Sutlu Tatl?lar - Milk Puddings 27 Zerde 28 Dondurma - Ice Cream Bibliography Index