Note to self

[aelfie]

Candies with the same name but are made in 2 different countries, by the same company, may taste completely different.

Let me sum up. I went to the British Food store to kill time and picked up a piece of candy by Cadbury called Turkish Delight. allanh introduced me to this wonderful Canadian candy bar which is this lovely, gooey yet chewy, bright red, intensely raspberry flavored gel covered in milk chocolate. What I picked up from the BFS was a small square bar with a lovely, gooey yet chewy, bright red gel, that is flavored with (I think) rose water, covered in milk chocolate.

That was not what I was expecting. Its good, but different.

And upon reflection. The rose water flavoring is probably more true to being "Turkish" than raspberry would be.

Now I have this huge 250g bar of it to share with everyone on saturday.

The treacle toffee is interesting too.

As a side note, considering how violently allergic I am to roses, I am surprised that my allergies were not triggered by eating this candy.

Looking around I found this blog entry on this candy bar with a very nice picture.

EDIT

Upon searching a bit more I found that the candy allanh gave me is actually called Big Turk and is made by Nestle. My bad. But its still called a Turkish Delight on the wrapper. 

Comments

[allanh.livejournal.com]

Turkish Delight is used by the winter queen in "The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe" to lure and enslave ... Edmund, I think. It's been a long time since I read the book.

[aelfie.livejournal.com]

No idea. Never read the books.

[aelfie.livejournal.com]

But you know, if you google turkish delight, you get links for that gelled fruit and nut stuff that comes out at christmas. No chocolate involved.

[leatherlion.livejournal.com]

Turkish Delight ("loukoum") has long been a favourite confection of mine. Indeed the rose-flavoured ones are traditional, but I particularly dislike anything rose-scented and so stay away from those ones whenever possible. Likewise with the spearmint-flavoured ones, though I don't dislike spearmint as a rule, but I find it to be particularly strong when it's in loukoum.

I used to love "Big Turk", but alas; the milk chocolate would do me in now. Every so often I allow myself fruit-flavoured ones (which I prefer) or the plain ones with pistachios in them (okay too, but I prefer the fruit-flavoured ones). Lovely stuff!

I've thought off and on to try and make some myself, but there was something daunting in all the recipes I located on the 'net, though I can't recall what it was. I should take a look again. Thanks for jogging my memory!

[aelfie.livejournal.com]

My gram gets these fruit flavored jell thingy's every christmas that are explained on the back of the box as being "Turkish Delight" I like the apricot with walnuts best. Followed by apple and walnut.