Turkish Delight Recipe

Ingredients:

Directions:

  1. # Soak the gelatine in half the water
  2. # Pour the remaining water into a saucepan, add the sugar and heat gently while stirring until the sugar is dissolved
  3. # Add softened gelatine and stir into the syrup
  4. # Simmer gently for 20 minutes then add the lemon juice
  5. # Pour half the mixture into one of 2 wetted, small square tins, tins should be small enough for Turkish delight to be one inch thick
  6. # Add 2 drops of pink colouring and a few drops of rose water to the remaining mixture, stir well and pour into the remaining tin
  7. # Leave for 24 hours in the fridge to set
  8. # Mix the icing sugar and cornflour together in a polythene bag
  9. # Dust hands with this mixture and pull Turkish delight from the tins
  10. # Cut into 1 inch (2.5cm) strips and then into cubes
  11. # Toss the cubes in icing sugar mixture

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