When it comes to food items, I usually enjoy trying new things and am not a picky eater. Most of my life, however, I have lived in small towns or locations that have a "small town feel" to them. As such, I've heard of more things that I've had the opportunity to sample.
One of those items is commonly known as "Turkish Delight" in English, and by "lokum" in the Arabic-speaking world. It is a sweet food, described by Wikipedia as being made by mixing starch and sugar into a translucent gel. The gel is flavored with various ingredients, from rosewater to fruits, spices, and mints. Sometimes bits of fruit or nuts are included. The finished product is often dusted with powdered sugar or dried coconut meat so they don't stick to each other. After reading about this delicacy online perhaps fifteen years ago, I thought it would be fun to try them sometime, but imagined I'd have to visit a large city or another country before I had the chance.
I was quite surprised during a recent visit to one of my local Dollar General® stores. While perusing the aisle of "holiday only" items, I spied a box marked "Fruit Delights" and immediately recognized it as a variation of Turkish Delight! Ordinarily, I would only have bought one box to sample, and then return to the store for more if I liked them. However, there were only three boxes on the shelf, I knew I would enjoy them since I am not a picky eater, so I took two of the three boxes. And, I do like them! 😋
Each box has two pieces of five different varieties:
- Strawberry Walnut
- Blueberry Conserve
- Pineapple Macadamia
- Raspberry Pecan
- Peach Walnut
Each one of the flavors is delightful in its own way, making it difficult — if not impossible — to select a single favorite.
The only thing I have eaten previously with any similarity are probably the old-fashioned "gumdrops" and "spice drops" candies. However, the Turkish Delights are much lighter, not as sweet, and the gel is not nearly as sticky and dense. These are made from real fruit juices, which are naturally sweet, so additional sugar was added sparingly. This was a quite refreshing change from the the way "Western" manufacturing companies operate, where sugars are added to everything in absurd quantity — even to savory items such as canned soups — in an effort to "addict" people to wanting that particular brand. 😠 These had just the right amount of sugar to be tasty, without feeling a 'sugar overdose' coming on! ✌️
by Chris Buttigieg, Wikipedia
No one knows exactly when or where Turkish Delight originated. One company, founded by Hacı Bekir and in business in Istanbul since 1777, is claimed by some to be the originator of this confection. However, "similar Arab and Persian recipes, including the use of starch and sugar, predate Bekir by several centuries." [1]
I like how the founders began their business from surplus crops on their farm. I like how the product was a re-creation of something they remember from their childhoods. I like how it is slow-cooked in small batches. The box also touts their product as:
● Gluten-free, dairy-free, and vegan
● No artificial flavors or colors
● No cholesterol and low in sodium
This is something I definitely would buy again. I would also enjoy trying some other flavors, especially if I could find a freshly-made lokum in a shop somewhere! Have you tried Turkish Delight? Do you like it? What are your favorite flavors?
😊SOURCES
1 Wikipedia: Turkish Delight
2 Wikipedia: Liberty Orchards
25-Dec-2022
I always think of the book “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” when I hear Turkish delight !LOLZ I remember as a kid I swore I’d never eat it, so I wasn’t manipulated like Edmund 🤣
How cool that you got the brand mentioned on Wikipedia by chance! It sounds like it was as cool as you’d hoped, which makes me happy ❤️! Those flavors are fun 🤩 definitely flavor combinations that aren’t popular in the US! Something different is always nice.
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It is one of my favorite candies because I enjoy soft fruits and nuts. It is so delicious and naturally sweet that I like it better than or as good as chocolates! We have that in common. You are the first person I have read in Hive to feature this candy!
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Lokum is one of our famous delights/sweets. There are many others such as baklava, künefe, kadayıf, tulumba, sütlaç, güllaç... Hope you will try some of them one day ;)
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This is first time I hear of "tarkish delight" or lokum. It seems delicious 😋 and healthy💪.
Thanks for sharing it.
In at least half sold on the Gluten free and No artificial flavors and coloring.
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Treat we have enjoyed since childhood, boxed in cardboard with delightful fruity goodness treats inside one of the few we were allowed as children.
So glad you have found them to your taste, less sugar always healthier. Not as easy to find old original manufacture as in earlier years, big sweet companies climbed on the band wagon.
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Nice grab. Sound pretty good.
This candy may look really juicy but it will be sweet to eat too. 100% fruit flavor is not possible but the flavors coming now are no less than natural ones. Whether you know me or not but you loaned me RC some time about 10 days ago so I can say thank you here. Thank you very much. Your help was very helpful.
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That looks delicious, I have never seen anything similar in my life, I also like that it does not have excess sugar, I always avoid eating oversweetened things and I know I would really enjoy trying this, I hope one day I can find it in my country. Hugs
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After all your description I felt like trying this delicious candy, it's new to me but it's good that there are people like you who share this delicious delicacy. Greetings! 🌸
Excellent proposal to eat sweet without saturating yourself with so much molasses, these days we were seeing a production of gums and I was amazed to see the large amount of sugar that they put in the mixture and then before chopping them, I loved this publication. Blessings 🙏🏽🤗💯🎄🌺🤩
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I tried once before.. Too sweet for me
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I'm sorry lol. All I could think of at first... was Fruit Cake 🤢🤪. I can't stand that stuff! But as I read your post. I am tempted to go to our local Dollar General, and see if they carry this. I love pretty much All Things sweets. So I am thinking I might like this too!
A wonderful post, and thanks for sharing! I know you have been very busy. But it was good to see a post from you!
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If you're gonna look for it, you'd better hurry, as it was a "holiday only" item, with all the Christmas candy, etc. Probably reduced 50% off now, if any is left!
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I did not like Fruit Cake as a child, but it's okay now, occasionally. I guess it is an adult/acquired taste. The cake part, itself, was good but I did not like the "candied" fruits. An excellent alternative that is really delicious, though, is ORANGE SLICE CAKE that has dates, orange slice candy, and other things! No "candied" fruit in this recipe! 😋
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I am Bangladeshi so I have not tried to make any Turkish food mainly because I was not familiar with Turkish Delight. I came to know through your post.I am a Bengali so I like the Bengali dishes of our country more. If I ever get these ingredients, then I will try to cook them .
The strawberry walnut one sounds delicious.
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