Re: "Turkish Delight in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe"

On 5/8/2025 2:04 PM, William Hyde wrote:

Lenona wrote:

I found this at r/cooking. It brought up a couple of points I had never
thought of!
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https://www.reddit.com/r/Cooking/comments/1kgiu8u/
whats_the_most_overrated_dish_youve_ever_tried/

 
Turkish delight is mentioned, with some disgust, in a Peter Wimsey
novel.  It is used as a vehicle for poisoning.
 
We may assume that Dorothy Sayers didn't like it much, but this we
before the WWII sugar shortages.
 
William Hyde

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My paternal grandmother used to make blackberry jam and red plum jam for
the family and to sell to the neighbors in College Station, Texas,
including the TAMU students.  The sugar rationing in WWII really cut
back her jam making for several years.
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Harvesting the blackberries at their old farm in Wellborn, Texas was a
dicey move as the paper wasps liked to make their nests deep in the
blackberry vines.  I was always prepared to run while grabbing a clump.
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Lynn
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