Maybe there’s a reason why we don’t always take every recipe we see from the movies so literally when we attempt to make it. Turkish Delight from The Chronicles of Narnia ala the White Witch looks like it might be something almost like a cross between sugar-coated JELLO and candy, but in truth it’s really something a lot different. The gelatinous stuff seems like it would be easy to make so long as you pay attention to the directions and don’t add too much of something or not enough of something else.
Obviously you’re going to be working with sugar, a LOT of sugar it would seem. It seems like this would make the treat unbearably sweet, but when you consider that you also use a corn starch mixture then it might actually cut the sweetness down just enough that it could be bearable. However the addition of rose water seems kind of odd since a lot of people don’t really seem to enjoy such a taste, citing that it tastes almost like gagging on a mouthful of perfume. There are other ingredients you can use however that can affect the taste of the dish, but overall the consistency looks like translucent Spam and to be quite honest the way it jiggles is just a little too much for me.
Some people obviously like it, but then again some folks like eating chocolate-covered bugs too, so taste is obviously suggestive depending on who you talk to. In Chronicles of Narnia we see one of the characters take a healthy chomp of this stuff while making it seem like it tastes just fine, but for those in England bread pudding tastes just fine too and it looks absolutely nasty. But like I’ve said before and will keep saying, to each their own.
After all there have been a wide selection of foods shown in films that people have tried to replicate or understand and, if it’s legal in this country, have attempted to make on their own. For instance you’re not going to make chilled monkey brains like in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom unless there’s something in your religious beliefs that makes this okay. It just wouldn’t happen. But snakes, eels, bugs, that seems pretty feasible. In Narnia there don’t seem to be a lot of other culinary recipes that we could get into since the movie tends to stay away from these types of things in favor of the story, but Turkish Delight is for the most part just a nasty-looking dessert.
It’s definitely not the only thing in films however that looks suspect, as there have been a few dishes, fantasy-based and realistic enough, that seem like they caught some mild indigestion if not worse. For instance there are the blood ticks from Galaxy Quest, or the meat pie made from the unfortunate Frey son in Game of Thrones (thank you Arya), and many more that are just out of this world gross but are still whimsical in their own right. Turkish Delight seems pretty tame by comparison.
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