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Gozinaki
Gozinaki ( ka, გოზინაყი ''gozinaq’i'', ) is a traditional Georgian confection made of caramelized nuts, usually walnuts, and fried in honey. In the western Georgian provinces of Imereti and Racha, it was sometimes called "churchkhela", a name more commonly applied to walnuts sewn onto a string, dipped in thickened white grape juice and dried. In several of Georgia's rural areas, both walnuts and honey used to have sacral associations. According to a long-established tradition, Gozinaki is served at special occasions, and is a mandatory component of New Year's Eve and Christmas celebrations. See also * Alegría (Mexican candy) * Churchkhela: an array of dishes similar to Gozinaki * Chikki * Florentine biscuit * Brittle (food) * Sesame seed candy * '' Yeot-gangjeong'' * Halva Halva (also halvah, halwa, halua, and other spellings; ) is a type of confectionery that is widely spread throughout the Middle East and North Africa, Eastern Europe and the Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Brittle (food)
Brittle is a type of confection consisting of flat broken pieces of hard sugar candy embedded with nuts such as pecans, almonds, or peanuts, and which are usually less than 1 cm thick. Types It has many variations around the world, such as: * '' pasteli'' in Greece * sohan in Iran * ''croquant'' or ''nougatine'' in France * ''croccante'' in Italy * ''krokant'' in Croatia and Germany * '' alegría'' or ''palanqueta'' in Mexico * pé-de-moleque in Brazil * '' panocha mani'', ''panutsa mani'', or ''samani'' in the Philippines (which can also be made with pili nut) * '' gozinaki'' in Georgia * ''gachak'' in Indian Punjab, chikki in other parts of India * ''kotkoti'' in Bangladesh * '' sohan halwa'' in Pakistan * ''huasheng tang'' (花生糖) in China * ''thua tat'' (ถั่วตัด) in Thailand * ''kẹo lạc, kẹo hạt điều'' in Vietnam. * '' praline'' in Louisiana, traditionally made with pecans. In parts of the Middle East, brittle is made with pistachios, while ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Georgia (country)
Georgia is a country in the Caucasus region on the coast of the Black Sea. It is located at the intersection of Eastern Europe and West Asia, and is today generally regarded as part of Europe. It is bordered to the north and northeast by Russia, to the south by Turkey and Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. Georgia covers an area of . It has a Demographics of Georgia (country), population of 3.7 million, of which over a third live in the capital and List of cities and towns in Georgia (country), largest city, Tbilisi. Ethnic Georgians, who are native to the region, constitute a majority of the country's population and are its titular nation. Georgia has been inhabited since prehistory, hosting the world's earliest known sites of winemaking, gold mining, and textiles. The Classical antiquity, classical era saw the emergence of several kingdoms, such as Colchis and Kingdom of Iberia, Iberia, that formed the nucleus of the modern Georgian state. In the early fourth centu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Chikki
Chikki is a traditional Indian sweet (brittle) generally made from nuts and jaggery/sugar. There are several different varieties of chikki in addition to the most common groundnut (peanut) chikki. Each variety of chikki is named after the ingredients used, which include puffed or roasted Bengal gram, sesame, puffed rice, beaten rice, or khobra (desiccated coconut), and other nuts such as almonds, cashews and pistachios. In Sindh province of Pakistan, it is called ''layee'' or ''lai''. In north Indian states, it is also known as ''gajak'' or ''maroonda''. In Bangladesh, West Bengal and other Bengali-speaking regions, it is known as ''gur badam''.In Maharashtra it is called as ''Chikki''. In the South Indian states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, it is called ''palli patti (పల్లీ పట్టీ)''. In Kerala it is called Kadala mittai. In Tamil Nadu it is called kadalai mittai. In Karnataka it's called ''Kadale Mittai''. Similar dishes are also very popular in Brazi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Walnut Dishes
A walnut is the edible seed of any tree of the genus ''Juglans'' (family Juglandaceae), particularly the Persian or English walnut, ''Juglans regia''. They are accessory fruit because the outer covering of the fruit is technically an Involucral bract, involucre and thus not morphologically part of the carpel; this means it cannot be a drupe but is instead a drupe-like nut. After full ripening, the husk, shell is discarded, and the kernel is eaten. Nuts of the eastern black walnut (''Juglans nigra'') and butternuts (''Juglans cinerea'') are less commonly consumed. Description Walnuts are the round, single-seed Drupe, stone fruits of the walnut tree. They ripen between September and November in the northern hemisphere. The brown, wrinkly walnut shell is enclosed in a husk. Shells of walnuts available in commerce usually have two segments (but three or four-segment shells can also form). During the bumming process, the husk becomes brittle and the shell hard. The shell encl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Christmas Food
Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed primarily on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world. A liturgical feast central to Christianity, Christmas preparation begins on the First Sunday of Advent and it is followed by Christmastide, which historically in the West lasts twelve days and culminates on Twelfth Night. Christmas Day is a public holiday in many countries, is observed religiously by a majority of Christians, as well as celebrated culturally by many non-Christians, and forms an integral part of the annual holiday season. The traditional Christmas narrative recounted in the New Testament, known as the Nativity of Jesus, says that Jesus was born in Bethlehem, in accordance with messianic prophecies. When Joseph and Mary arrived in the city, the inn had no room, and so they were offered a stable where the Christ Child was soon born, with angels proclaiming this ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Halva
Halva (also halvah, halwa, halua, and other spellings; ) is a type of confectionery that is widely spread throughout the Middle East and North Africa, Eastern Europe and the Balkans, Central Asia, and South Asia. The name is used for a broad variety of recipes, generally a thick paste made from flour, butter, liquid oil, saffron, rosewater, milk, turmeric powder, and sweetened with sugar. Etymology The word ''halva'' entered the English language between 1840 and 1850 from Romanian, which came from , itself ultimately derived from , a sweet confection.Halvah , , 2009 The root in , means "sweet". The Persian name for the confection is , meaning "oil food".
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Yeot-gangjeong
''Yeot-gangjeong'' () is a candy bar-like variety of ''hangwa'' (traditional Korean confection) consisting of toasted seeds, nuts, beans, or puffed grains mixed with ''mullyeot'' (rice syrup). In general households, they usually make and eat yeot-gangjeong during Korean holidays and Jesa. Or, it is made and sold as a winter snack and is usually eaten during holidays and feasts. Gallery Cutting yeot-gangjeong.jpg, Cutting ''yeot-gangjeong'' Heugimja-yeotgangjeong (black sesame yeotgangjeong).jpg, Black sesame ''yeot-gangjeong'' Kong-yeotgangjeong (black soybean yeotgangjeong).jpg, Black soybean ''yeot-gangjeong'' Korean dessert-Hangwa-Yeotgangjeong-01.jpg, Peanut, puffed rice, and raisin ''yeot-gangjeong'' KOCIS rice puff yeotgangjeong (4646381787).jpg, Puffed rice ''yeot-gangjeong'' Korean desserts.jpg, Puffed rice and raisin ''yeot-gangjeong'' Kkaeyeotgangjeong (sesame yeotgangjeong).jpg, Sesame ''yeot-gangjeong'' Hodugangjeong (walnut gangjeong).jpg, Walnut ''yeot-gangjeon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Sesame Seed Candy
:''The term "sesame candy" may also refer to sesame halva or ufuta.'' Sesame seed candy is a confection of sesame seeds and sugar or honey pressed into a ball, bar or wafer. It is popular across East Africa, Middle East, South Asia, and East Asia, as well as in some European countries. And as far as Australia The texture may vary from chewy to crisp. It may also be called sesame (seed) candy/bar/crunch; sesame seed cake may refer to the confection or to a leavened cake or cookie incorporating sesame. By location Ancient Greece and Rome Similar foods are documented in Ancient Greek cuisine: ''itrion'' (ἴτριον) was a thin biscuit/cake made with sesame seeds and honey, the Cretan ''koptoplakous'' (κοπτοπλακοῦς) or ''gastris'' (γάστρις) was a layer of ground nuts sandwiched between two layers of sesame crushed with honey. Herodotus also mentions "sweet cakes of sesame and honey", but with no detail. The ''Kopte sesamis'' (κοπτὴ σησαμίς) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Florentine Biscuit
Florentine biscuit (or simply, Florentine) is a sweet biscuit of nuts and fruit. It was most likely invented in France in the 17th century and not in Italy (despite their name). Florentines are made of nuts (typically hazelnuts and almonds) and candied cherries mixed with sugar melted together with butter and honey, cooked in an oven. They are often coated on the bottom with chocolate, which is traditionally scored in a wave pattern with the tines of a fork for decoration. Other types of candied fruit Candied fruit, also known as glacé fruit, is whole fruit, smaller pieces of fruit, or pieces of peel (fruit), peel, placed in heated sugar syrup, which absorbs the moisture from within the fruit and eventually Food preservation, preserves it. ... are used as well. They typically contain neither flour nor eggs. See also References Biscuits Nut confections {{Confection-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Churchkhela
Churchkhela ( ka, ჩურჩხელა, ) is a traditional Georgian candle-shaped candy. The main ingredients of are grape must, nuts, and flour. Almonds, walnuts, hazelnuts, and sometimes chocolate and raisins are threaded onto a string, dipped in thickened grape must, mulberry juice, or fruit juices and dried in the shape of a sausage. In eastern Georgia, production begins with a condensed juice called , made from must from local grapes in the areas of Kakheti, Kartli, or Meskheti thickened with wheat flour. Wheat flour is also used for making condensed mulberry juice in the area of Samtskhe-Javakheti. Corn flour is used in western Georgia (the areas of Racha, Lechkhumi, Guria, Samegrelo, Abkhazia, and Achara), and this condensed grape juice is called . In Abkhazia, a region in the North Caucasus Mountains of Georgia, it is known as ( or ) in the local Abkhaz language and is touted as the best souvenir for gifting. Georgian warriors carried with them becaus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Confectionery
Confectionery is the Art (skill), art of making confections, or sweet foods. Confections are items that are rich in sugar and carbohydrates, although exact definitions are difficult. In general, however, confections are divided into two broad and somewhat overlapping categories: baker's confections and sugar confections. Baker's confectionery, also called flour confections, includes principally sweet pastries, cakes, and similar Baking, baked goods. Baker's confectionery excludes everyday Bread, breads, and thus is a subset of products produced by a baker. Sugar confectionery includes candies (also called ''sweets'', short for ''sweetmeats'', in many English-speaking countries), candied nuts, chocolates, chewing gum, bubble gum, pastillage, and other confections that are made primarily of sugar. In some cases, chocolate confections (confections made of chocolate) are treated as a separate category, as are sugar-free versions of sugar confections. The words ''candy'' (Canada ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Alegría (Mexican Candy)
Alegría is a Mexican candy made from seeds of amaranth and honey or sugar that is produced mainly in the town of Santiago Tulyehualco in the Xochimilco borough of Mexico City. It has been known as ''alegría'', Spanish for "joy," since the 16th century. The alegría of Tulyehualco was officially declared ''Patrimonio Cultural Intangible de la Ciudad de México'' (an intangible part of the cultural heritage of Mexico City) in September 2016. Amaranth is a plant native to Mexico. In prehispanic times, in addition to forming part of the diet of the indigenous people, it was also used as currency and for ceremonial purposes. Figures of amaranth and honey were made as offerings to the gods. In order to stop those religious practices, Hernán Cortés banned the cultivation of amaranth. The plant began to fall into disuse because those who continued to cultivate it faced being put to death as punishment. Alegrías have become the most popular way of consuming amaranth. These sweets are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
