Original Turkish Delight
Original Turkish Delight
In western Europe and America, turkish delight was often seen as a treat that must be avoided, in the minds of most Vegetarians, Vegans and Celiac sufferers. That’s because, if it’s a cheap Turkish Delight, it typically contains gelatine which vegans refuse and a variety of other ingredients (like glucose syrup) are suspect for celiac sufferers.
Description
Original is the recipe that started it all — no flavouring, no fruit, no spice. Just the sweet itself: soft, translucent, dusted in icing sugar and cornflour. If you want to know what Turkish delight actually is, before anyone started adding things to it, this is where you begin.
What it tastes like
Gently sweet and clean, with a texture that does most of the work — that particular soft, yielding chew that no other sweet quite has. Because there’s no strong flavour to hide behind, original lives or dies on the quality of the making, which is exactly why we’re happy to sell it plain.
How we make it
The traditional method, slowly: sugar and starch cooked and set by hand, then cut and dusted. No shortcuts, no gelatine, no artificial anything. Naturally vegan and gluten-free, and nut-free — the safest choice for a shared box.
How to enjoy it
Original is the one to serve with strong Turkish or Arabic coffee, the pairing it was made for — the bitterness of the cup against the plain sweetness of the sweet. It’s also the piece we use to calm down a box of stronger flavours: a few pieces of original give the palate somewhere to rest between the spiced and the floral.
Fifty hand-made pieces, made fresh and delivered across the UK. Buy a box of pure original, or use it to balance a mix.