Balm soul and delight throat. So we call this dessert in the East. It simply adore almost everything and especially children! And Turkish delight - a delicacy for which Edmund - one of the heroes of the wonderful book "Chronicles of Narnia" went to speak with the queen.
What is so unusual about this sweetness? And whether it is possible to cook at home? Let's deal together.
- What do you breed? - Again asked the Witch. - What are you - an overgrown dwarf, who cut his beard?
- No, Your Majesty. I still do not have a beard. I'm a boy.
- Boy! - cried the Witch. - You mean, you - the son of Adam? I see you - dolt, whoever you may be still, - murmured the queen. - Answer me, finally, so far I have not run out of patience. You - Man?
- Yes, Your Majesty, - said Edmund.
- And how are you, pray tell, was in my possession?
- Excuse me, your majesty, I walked through the wardrobe. I... I opened the door and... and found myself here, your Majesty, - said Edmund.
- The poor child, - she said in quite a different tone. - You probably frozen. Come here, sit down next to me in the sleigh. I wrapped you up in his cloak, and we will talk.
Edmund proposal had not quite to your taste, but he did not dare to object. He climbed into the sledge and sat at her feet, and the Witch threw him his cloak and carefully tucked the fur on all sides.
- Would you like to drink something hot? - she asked.
- Yes, please, Your Majesty - said Edmund.
From some of the folds of the cloak Witch took small bottle made of yellow metal like copper. Outstretched hand, she dripped one drop from the bottle into the snow beside the sledge. Edmund saw the drop flashed in the air, like diamonds. The next moment she touched the snow was a hiss, and in front of him, out of nowhere, appeared covered with precious stones cup with an unknown liquid, from which steaming.
... As soon as Edmund began to sip a sweet, bubbly, thick drink, he felt much better. He never tried anything similar, Edmund drink warmed from head to toe.
- Boring drink or eat - the Queen said. - What would you like most of all, son of Adam?
- Turkish Delight, if I may, Your Majesty - said Edmund.
Queen again dripped into the snow one drop of copper bottle - and at the same moment a drop turned into a round box, tied with a green silk ribbon. When Edmund opened it, it was full of great Turkish Delight. Each piece was thoroughly transparent and very sweet. Edmund had never even ever otvedyvat such delicious Turkish Delight ...
At first Edmund tried to remember that rude to talk with your mouth full, but soon he was only thinking about one: how to cram into his mouth more Turkish Delight, and the more he ate it, the more he wanted yet….
Turkish Delight - delicacy, which is prepared on the basis of water, sugar and starch. To make it more useful, you can add fruit juices, nuts. We offer to cook Turkish delight with hazelnut. A use as conventional flavoring vanilla (which may be sugar and essence).
With regard to the dyes that are added to many housewives cooking time Delight, we believe that it is better to abandon it. Cooked according to our recipe sweetness already will have caramel color, and it will be quite enough for aesthetic perception of goodies, both adults and kids.
Ingredients: sugar - 2 tbsp, water (syrup) -.. 0.5 v, starch - 0.5 v, water (for the starch paste.) - 1.5 v, citric acid -. 0.5 tsp nuts (hazelnut, cashew nuts, almonds, walnuts) - 100 g, flavoring (vanilla) - to taste, powdered sugar (for sprinkling) - 0.5 Art.
How to cook: clean, fry and walnut husk. For this we pour them on baking and browning at 200 degrees for 10 minutes.
Now weld syrup: sugar dissolve in water (0.5 cups) in a saucepan, add to half the norm of citric acid (juice). Put the pan over medium heat, bring to a boil. To get a bright delight should boil down the syrup to the small fire, and for getting caramel effect - over medium heat. To check the readiness of the syrup, recruit his little teaspoon and drop into a glass of cold water. When the syrup has cooled down completely, it must be hard. Ready syrup for Turkish Delight is set aside.
Then mix the starch with water (1.5 cups) and add the second half of the citric acid. Put the container on a small fire and boiled until until the mixture becomes very thick and translucent. Carefully pour the sugar syrup in starch paste. Without removing the container from the stove, carefully knead until smooth mass viscous state. Boil the mixture, stirring for 20-25 minutes at very low heat, and then enter the flavoring and nuts.
Now take the rectangular shape, place it, cover it with cling film and smazhem small amount of vegetable oil. Spill it in the hot Turkish delight and send to cool for 5-6 hours, and even better to leave him alone for the night.
Morning board densely sprinkle mixture of powdered sugar and starch (0.25 cup), put on her ready turkish delight, prisyplem top powder layer with starch and shall cut with a sharp knife into cubes of 3.5 cm. Carefully roll each square from all sides.
WARNING nutritionists:Given that Turkish delight - a very sweet dessert, you have to be very careful with him. He, of course, be able to replace the sweetness of the store (which is often saturated with chemical constituents so that, it is possible to study the periodic table), but abuse it is still not worth: 1-2 pieces per day for the baby enough.
