Meaning of saray helva | Babel Free

Definitions

A traditional Turkish food made of white sugar, wheat flour, butter, vegetable margarine and vanillin.

uncountable

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

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

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