Once upon a time lived in Istanbul capricious ruler, who could not please even the most skilful cooks.

Knowing that the Sultan loves to indulge itself sweet, nimble chefs day and night preparing for his marvelous sweetness. However, the ungrateful Lord of the chefs praised very rarely, and always demanded something - fresh and very tasty.

And once one court confectioner named Ali was able to truly please the Sultan.

Inventive Ali washed the rice, poured in a pot of boiling water and cooked to cereal completely seethe. When the rice has cooled, wipe it through a sieve.

In another bowl, Ali poured Apple juice, pour brown sugar, stirred and cooked, stirring constantly and removing the foam, for 40 minutes to "thin thread".

Rubbed through a sieve rice, combined with Apple syrup and, stirring constantly, continued to cook on low heat until until the mixture began to lag behind the walls of the cookware.

Put the Turkish delight in the form, took a little hand was sprinkled on top with powdered sugar and left for 24 hours for solidification.

Frozen rice Turkish delight cut into small squares, roll in powdered sugar, put the treat on the dish and served it to the Sultan

New brought the Metropolitan to the indescribable delight because she was not only tastes great, but is very soft. With a light hand the invention of Sultan Ali received the name "Turkish delight" — from the Turkish rahat lokum — "easy (easy) pieces", and soon became extremely popular among the Turkish nobility. Turkish delight kept in caskets like a jewel, and some even attributed this sweet most that neither is of divine origin. Over time, began to appear all new and new recipes "Sultan's delight": to make the Turkish delight started to use walnuts and pistachios, mixed fruit juices, fresh fruit and chocolate.