44th National Táncház Festival & Fair • 4–6 April 2025
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Food and tradition – 15th, 16th century Ottoman Turkish cuisine. Part II. Desserts. Turkish culinary historian Arif Bilgin has been the main source for this article. Described here are puddings and sweet porridges both cooked and baked, often made from rice – or from farina, cracked wheat, etc – adding sugar or honey, dried fruits and nuts, spiced with cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, nutmeg, and so on. Recipes provided are: cracked wheat with cheese, „Asure” or Noah’s pudding, baked rice pudding, lokum, a sweet made with carrots, a simple farina pastry, baklava. It concludes with recipes for sherberts, ayran and Turkish coffee. By ethnographer Juhász Katalin.