saray helva

English

Noun

saray halva (uncountable)

1. A traditional Turkish food made of white sugar, wheat flour, butter, vegetable margarine and vanillin.
   • 2012, Alice Melike Ülgezer, The Memory of Salt, Giramondo Publishing, →ISBN, page 111:

     And before she could answer he had put something in her mouth. She didn't chew and instead let the sweetness dissolve on her tongue. 'Fresh saray helwa. The best palace sweet,' he beamed.

   • 2014, Alan Davidson, Tom Jaine, The Oxford Companion to Food, 3rd edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 136:

     Another sweet which has a threadlike texture is saray helvasi, made in Turkey and Iran, from flour, oil, and sugar. The mixture is worked to give numerous fine, parallel threads, rather like a skein of silk.

   • 2020, Baris Biçakçi, The Mosquito Bite Author, University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 22:

     Everyone who goes to Istanbul brings back a comparison with them, just like they would Turkish delight, or floss halva, saray helva, Bolçi chocolates.