Are you Nuts for Jelly Candy

[Nicolai]

Only for the brave 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[scubadoo97]

I guess I'm brave enough. Looks good, in small doses

[minas6907]

Are those nougats?

[Shelby]

I'm not sure what I'm looking at, but they are pretty.

[Darienne]

OK.  I'll bite.  What are we looking at?  Do you make them?  Can we make them?  Please.

[blue_dolphin]

Is it Turkish Delight?

 

From a photo I took in an Istanbul market:

[Darienne]

It just dawned on me.  I'm currently making apple leather...and the rolled bits look like some kind of fruit leather with thinly sliced nuts in it.  I could try sliced almonds in my next batch of apple leather.

Edited October 10, 2015 by Darienne (log)

[pastrygirl]

I like both turkish delight and nougat, so yes please!

[Darienne]

A bit fuzzy, but then it's early morning here.  Could be tho....

 

[Smithy]

Darienne, your apple leather does look like some of the Turkish Market candies, as well as a couple of Nicolai's shots. Interesting! The very first photo in his post looks like it might have a halva base, and I think the guess about nougat also looks likely for some of it.

[SylviaLovegren]

Turkish Delight aka loukoumia is the jellied one.  The nougaty looking one is halwa (halvah).   Yum.  

[Nicolai]

Ohhh. The post was moved and I just found it.

 

These pictures are not for Turkish sweets and such is availabe in a much wider number of countries.

 

These sweets are made of two basic mixes namely:

 

1- Nougat and more specifically Nougatine. Nougat includes egg whites while Nougatine does not use egg whites and is thus harder and more brittle (Sugar+glucose+corn syrup}

 

2- Jelly. Originally the jelly was red grapes (pectine factor) based and we still have only the color and not the flavour. Thanks to commercialisation,

 

- Nuts: The nuts are any nuts you can think off with the exception of walnuts.

 

- Color very unfortunately is food coloring. The yellow should have been a mix of saffron and turmeric.

 

These are not lukum or halva - halwa or loukumia...etc.

 

Very unfortunatly, the taste is lost and you are left with teeth damages.

The original version was indeed very yummy.

 

Probably Darienne Apple leather is much tastier.