saray helva

Noun

saray halva (uncountable)

1. A traditional Turkish food made of white sugar, wheat flour, butter, vegetable margarine and vanillin.
   • 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.2012, Alice Melike Ülgezer, The Memory of Salt, Giramondo Publishing, →ISBN, page 111
   • 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.2014, Alan Davidson, Tom Jaine, The Oxford Companion to Food, 3rd edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 136