🇹🇷 How to Make Lokum

Craving Lokum? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Lokum at home, in about 1 hr + setting, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• 600g sugar
• 400ml water, plus 200ml more
• 1 tbsp lemon juice
• 80g cornflour
• 1 tsp cream of tartar
• 1 tbsp rosewater
• icing sugar and more cornflour to coat

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Boil the sugar, 400ml water and lemon juice to 118°C. Use a thermometer — this one genuinely needs it.
2. Separately whisk the cornflour and cream of tartar into the other 200ml water and cook, stirring, until it becomes a thick paste.
3. Pour the hot syrup into the paste very slowly, whisking hard the whole time.
4. Now simmer on the lowest heat for 45 min, stirring often. It turns from cloudy white to pale gold and thick enough to hold a trail.
5. Stir in the rosewater, pour into an oiled tin and leave uncovered overnight. Do not refrigerate.
6. Cut into cubes with an oiled knife and toss in equal parts icing sugar and cornflour.