The Narnia Box
The enchanted classic — 25 Original and 25 Rose. The Turkish delight everybody pictures when they read the book.
Description
There is one sweet in English literature that everybody remembers, and this is it. A boy meets a queen on a snowy road, she asks what he would most like to eat, and what appears is Turkish delight — enough of it to make him forget his own family. Generations of readers have closed that book wondering what on earth it tasted like.
Almost all of them have since been disappointed by a supermarket tin. The stuff that turns up at Christmas tends to be stiff, over-perfumed and coated in something closer to plastic than sugar. It is not what the story is describing.
This box is the two flavours that actually belong to that scene: half Original, half Rose, and nothing else in the way. Rose is the perfumed, floral one the sweet is famous for. Original is the plain lokum underneath it — honeyed, soft, quietly citrus. Twenty-five pieces of each, made by hand in small batches.
How it tastes
Original — Plain lokum, and the base everything else is built on. Honeyed and soft, with a faint citrus note underneath. Mild enough that it resets your palate between the stronger pieces.
Rose — Floral, perfumed and unmistakable — this is the flavour most people mean when they say “Turkish delight”. As old as the sweet itself, and worth trying properly made before deciding you dislike it.
What’s in the box
Fifty pieces in total:
- 25 × Original
- 25 × Rose
Who it’s for
A gift for a reader, and the box we would put in front of anyone tasting proper Turkish delight for the first time. It is also the one that disappears fastest at Christmas, for reasons that will be obvious to anyone who has read the book.
Good to know
- Handmade in small batches — every flavour is vegan and gluten free.
- Made and packed by us in Belfast, and dispatched within one working day.
- Arrives gift-ready, so it can be sent straight to whoever it is for.
- Prefer to choose the flavours yourself? Build your own fifty-piece box instead.
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