Keşkül () is an almond-based milk

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. Usually served in a bowl and eaten with a spoon, it is often garnished with coconut shaving or

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nuts and is off-white in colour.

Etymology

The dish's name is derived from the

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idiomatic expression "''keşkül-i fukara''" meaning "beggar's bowl". The word ''keşkül'' and its respective idiom is ultimately traced back to Persian ''kaşkūl'' (كشكول), meaning "beggar" or "beggar's bowl". The oldest written usage of the word in a

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is traced backed to Franciscus a Mesgnien Meninski's ''

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.'' According to Meninski the word originally meant ' or '' scyphus''. The usage of the word to indicate the dessert is first attested in Şemseddin Sami's 1900 work '.

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