1/2 cup water
2 cups sugar
2 1/2 Tablespoons gelatin
1/4 cup cold water
1/2 cup orange juice*
1/4 cup lemon juice*
Food coloring as desired
Confectioners sugar
*Using fresh squeezed juice is tastier, but bottled will do.
Cook 1/2 cup water and sugar to 255 degrees Farenheit, remove from heat. Soften gelatin in 1/4 cup water for 5 minutes. Add gelatin mixture to cooked syrup. Add juices and food coloring(if used). Stir and strain through a fine sieve. Pour into a buttered 8-inch square pan. Let stand until firm. Turn out, cut into squares, and dust with confectioners sugar.
Here is another recipe, and when you google there are others.
Aaargh!!! Baker… You’re killing me! I’m just a single guy who doesn’t cook anything unless its needs frying, microwaving or barbequing.
I was thinking about buying some online. Have you tried this? Maybe then I’ll see what the big deal with Edmund scarfing that down that stuff from the White Witch.
Askia, if you enter Turkish Delight into a search on Google you will find not only recipes but lots of places to buy it. I’ve never bought it commercially though, so I can’t vouch for any of them. Your site sounds good though, I think I may check it out!
That’s reannual wine. Very expensive, mostly because it’s very rare, but perhaps also because you can drink as much as you like and not get hungover later. That’s because you get hungover {i]before* you drink it!
When I was living in San Jose, another guy and I had the idea or relabeling bottles of Nuoc Mâm, Vietnamese fish sauce, as Yamok sauce, selling them at conventions. We got lazy and it stalled at the asking permisison of Paramount stage. Now it’s too late. Ah well.
Maybe I’m telling you something you already know rjung, but Maids of Honour, and Spotted Dick, are real foods as well. I have recipes for them. MOH are small tarts, sorry to say.
What was the name of that extra-hot, multi-colored chili pepper in that episode of The Simpsons? The one that Chief Wiggum used in his chili, and that gave Homer a bad trip/vision quest? Gottagemmesummadat!
Another very interesting fictional food is haggis. Brits insist it’s a real food, but I’m convinced they just made it up to freak out the tourists and make themselves look macho enough to eat anything.
Do you think I could wangle Archie Goodwin into inviting me to a dinner cooked by Fritz Brenner at Nero Wolfe’s residence? Anything on the menu would be fine, although I’d like to try Saussise Minuit or those blueberry-fed grouse. Or maybe he’d take me out to Rusterman’s for steak and dancing at the Flamingo afterwards?
Rjung triticale (sp?) is a real grain, a hybrid of wheat and something else.
BrainGlutton, the chilis were described as "The merciless peppers of
Quetzlzacatenango! Grown deep in the jungle primeval by the inmates of a Guatemalan insane asylum. " They were spotted like mushrooms and glowed fluorescent green. No such I’m afraid, although maybe they could genesplice a chili with the same genes they used to make the glow in the dark mice
I found some Turkish Delight at a little British imports store, and having read my Narnia set until it’s practically falling apart, I had to buy some and try it. The store only had the rose-flavored kind, so that’s what I got. It was… interesting. Basically a strongly rose-flavored jelly candy covered in chocolate. Rather nice when nibbled slowly, but my sister took a big bite and just about choked
Proper spelling of the Klingon worm delicacy: gagh. Best when fresh and wiggly!
Somebody earlier in the thread asked about Redwall meadowcream. IIRC, one of the more recent books explained this. Apparently they make a ‘milk’ from some sort of tuber, sort of like soy milk.
If I could drink alcohol (I have med issues), I’d want to try Recluce green brandy. Mmm, mmm!
Wrong - that’s just so wrong! - that’s the nestle or rowntree or somesuch candified version - real Delight isn’t chocolate-covered. You’re better off finding the nearest Greek delicatessen, and buying it there - it goes by the name of loucoms or somesuch, though (don’t call it Turkish delight in a Greek deli), and it should just be covered in cornstarch and sugar. Bergamot and lemon are my favourites.
So, according to The Cecil, eating monkey brains is now illegal but “the Chinese still eat them whenever they can get away with it.” So it’s not implausible, really, that they might have been served at an Indian’ rajah’s banquet in the 1930s, when IJ&TDOT was set.
