A lady's navel (''hanım göbeği'') or woman's navel (''kadın göbeği'') is a type of sweet
pastry
Pastry is baked food made with a dough of flour, water and shortening (solid fats, including butter or lard) that may be savoury or sweetened. Sweetened pastries are often described as '' bakers' confectionery''. The word "pastries" suggests ...
from
Turkey
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. They are made from balls of
choux pastry
Choux pastry, or (), is a delicate pastry dough used in many pastries. Basic ingredients usually only include butter, water, flour and eggs (auxiliary ingredients and flavorings are also added).
Instead of a raising agent, choux pastry employs ...
which are given a dimple, deep-fried and then soaked in
syrup
In cooking, a syrup (less commonly sirup; from ar, شراب; , beverage, wine and la, sirupus) is a condiment that is a thick, viscous liquid consisting primarily of a solution of sugar in water, containing a large amount of dissolved sugars ...
.
Although the original form of the pastry apparently bore little resemblance to a woman's
navel
The navel (clinically known as the umbilicus, commonly known as the belly button or tummy button) is a protruding, flat, or hollowed area on the abdomen at the attachment site of the umbilical cord. All placental mammals have a navel, altho ...
(belly button) other than the depressed point or dimple in the center, many modern versions, especially ones created in the
United States
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and
United Kingdom
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since the 1990s, have been intentionally designed to resemble a woman's belly button. Features included for this visual and sensory effect include placing dark-colored powder, often
cocoa
Cocoa may refer to:
Chocolate
* Chocolate
* ''Theobroma cacao'', the cocoa tree
* Cocoa bean, seed of ''Theobroma cacao''
* Chocolate liquor, or cocoa liquor, pure, liquid chocolate extracted from the cocoa bean, including both cocoa butter an ...
powder, inside the dimple to resemble dirt or gunk inside the belly button, moulding the interior of the dimple itself to somewhat resemble lumps of
umbilical cord
In placental mammals, the umbilical cord (also called the navel string, birth cord or ''funiculus umbilicalis'') is a conduit between the developing embryo or fetus and the placenta. During prenatal development, the umbilical cord is physiologi ...
tissue, and even inserting either edible or inedible decorations around the dimple to represent
navel piercing
Navel piercing (also referred to as a belly button piercing), a type of piercing located through the skin of the navel. It is most commonly located on the upper fold of skin, but can also be effected underneath or around the edges of the navel ...
jewelry.
The dessert reveals sexual imaginations just like other Turkish desserts such as
Vezir Parmağı (visier's fingers),
Dilber Dudağı
Dilber dudağı, (lit. ''lady lips'' or ''sweetheart's lips'' in Turkish), is a Turkish dessert. The ingredients are egg, yogurt, milk, butter, sunflower oil, baking powder, lemon, flour, sugar, water. The dessert reveals sexual imaginations just ...
(lady lips),
Kerhane Tatlısı (brothel dessert),
Sütlü Nuriye (Milky Nuriye) etc.
See also
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List of choux pastry dishes
This is a list of choux pastry dishes. Choux pastry, or ''pâte à choux,'' is a light pastry dough that contains only butter, water, flour and eggs. The high moisture content of the dough causes it to produce steam when cooked, which puffs the p ...
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List of pastries
This is a list of pastries, which are small buns made using a stiff dough enriched with fat. Some dishes, such as pies, are made of a pastry casing that covers or completely contains a filling of various sweet or savory ingredients.
There are fiv ...
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Navel orange
An orange is a fruit of various citrus species in the family Rutaceae (see list of plants known as orange); it primarily refers to ''Citrus'' × ''sinensis'', which is also called sweet orange, to distinguish it from the related ''Citrus à ...
References
Turkish pastries
Choux pastry
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