275ml hot water
25g powdered gelatine
450g gran sugar
1/2 level tsp citric acid
1 tsp rose essence
colouring if you like
2 oz icing sugar sifted
Put water in to saucepan and sprinke on gelatine, stir until melted ofver lowish heat, add sugar and citric acid, continue to heat until sugar dissolves completely and liquid is clear.
Raise heat slightly and boil steadily for 20 mins, do not stir.
Add rose essence then tint light pink with colouring. Pour in to oiled shallow dish - eg 8 inch round - and stand until cold.
Then refrigerate overnight or at least 12 hours.
Tipp icing sugar on to foil , loosen the edges of T D using a knife dipped in hot water, stand dish for 30 seconds in hot water.
Pull T D out of dish with your fingers and turn on to icing sugar, cut in to 1 inch squares with scissors and roll/coat in icing sugar.
Store in an airtight tin but it doesn't say how long for. Not made it but the recipes in this book have been reliable in the past!
How did we get on to Turkish Delight in Foraging?!
I always think that about vanilla pods. does anyone know if you can cheaper anywhere (asian/chinese supermarkets or something?)
The cheapest I've found them is Holland and Barratt..about £3.50 for 4...I've just bought some off Suma, and I think bulk buying from them is possibly the cheapest. You can buy it by the kilo but probably not wise unless you've won the Premium Bonds and have a lot of friends with big families and a baking habit. I think it's because cultivation and preparation is so difficult, I'd have to look it up but I think the orchids have to be hand pollinated and then the pods have to be cured for quite a while to bring out the flavour, another of those things you wonder how on earth did they discover it?
judith
Joined: 16 Dec 2004 Posts: 22789 Location: Montgomeryshire
Posted: Fri Jun 03, 05 4:16 pm Post subject:
You can reuse the pods too - I wouldn't put a new pod in the sugar jar (she says, waiting to be told off for her cavalier kitchen hygiene ).
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I always think that about vanilla pods. does anyone know if you can cheaper anywhere (asian/chinese supermarkets or something?)
can someone post a recipe for turkish delight. I'd love a go for my christmas hampers (does it keep?)
asian other ethnic markets have them cheaper. i have made my own vanilla extract by slicing 3 vanilla beans down lengthwise and putting them in a cheap 75cl bottle of vodka. very potent and excellent taste plus it lasts forever even if you're generous with it like i am!
you can sometimes find vanilla beans cheaply at health food stores
vanilla pods added to sugar do infuse an amazing taste and odour
You can reuse the pods too - I wouldn't put a new pod in the sugar jar (she says, waiting to be told off for her cavalier kitchen hygiene ).
i've reused the ones used to make vanilla extract. i just dry them out well then put them in the sugar
Gertie
Joined: 08 Jan 2005 Posts: 1638 Location: Yorkshire
Posted: Fri Jun 03, 05 4:40 pm Post subject:
I've also made my own vanilla extract, pretty much like the above recipe, but, if you can't be bothered to make it Lakeland sell it for £4 a bottle, which seems really reasonable compared to the price you pay elsewhere for the same product.
Last year it was £10+ for the same bottle something about the previous year's harvest, they said - other places put the price up too. Must have been a bumper 2003 or 2004 harvest
i have made my own vanilla extract by slicing 3 vanilla beans down lengthwise and putting them in a cheap 75cl bottle of vodka
Excellent, will have a bash at this with my new store - how long do you leave them in, Buttery? Just as long as you fancy I imagine?
Hey, WW and Nettie (and Buttery for that matter) - home made vanilla extract/essence, now there's a Christmas pressie that will keep
i'd say leave it about a month before you use it if you're doing a full 75cl bottle. i've had my last batch for yonks now and it's just as lovely as ever!
i can see it making an amazing sweet alcoholic drink maybe with some ice cream in it
Ooo some great ideas here, I particularly like the Turkish Delight recipe.
Bugs, I've never seen rose essence for sale, is it the same as rose water or stronger? Should I be rescuing the wild rose petals from the bush at the end of my garden?
Layney Guest
Posted: Wed Aug 03, 05 12:15 am Post subject: Itching powder
greenbean wrote:
Hi Treacodactyl, How about making yourself some itching powder to put down the pants of people you don't like? I think the rosehips have to be quite ripe. It's been a while since I've done that.
I might try the sugar. I like looking at the baking aisle in Waitrose and laughing at the vanilla sugar. How much?.
Before they ask me to leave the store of course. I wish people wouldn't keep doing that.
don't waste your money on the vanilla sugar... bruise a vanilla pod and stick it in your sugar... as long as it's in there, no matter how many times you refill the sugar you'll get vanilla sugar
anyone got a recipe for rose essence? can you find this at asian markets as well as rosewater?
mochyn
Joined: 21 Dec 2004 Posts: 24585 Location: mid-Wales
Posted: Wed Aug 03, 05 1:13 pm Post subject:
I saved petals from three of the rose bushes this year: Chapeau de Napoleon & Zephirine Drouhin, which are deep pink, and an unidentified warm yellow They all have very good scent which has stayed well. I just srpinkled the petals into an open, flat box and left them in the kitchen where it's always warm. Make sure only to collect dry petals.
I now have a large jar each of pink and yellow petals for using in pot pouri or whatever during the winter.
I also made a small jar on lavender sugar, having seen it for an outrageous price in a farm shop. It's sitting in the dresser kennel with the orange, lemon and vanilla sugars.
but probably not wise unless you've won the Premium Bonds and have a lot of friends with big families and a baking habit. I think it's because cultivation and preparation is so difficult, I'd have to look it up but I think the orchids have to be hand pollinated and then the pods have to be cured for quite a while to bring out the flavour, another of those things you wonder how on earth did they discover it?
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something about the previous year's harvest, they said - other places put the price up too. Must have been a bumper 2003 or 2004 harvest 
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