Frosina Tulumba Pastry 500g (1.1lb)

Frosina Tulumba is a 500g pack of ready-made tulumba from Frosina — a Macedonian specialty pastry brand — in the traditional fried, syrup-soaked pastry format: the ridged, extruded, fried choux-style dough pieces soaked in sugar syrup that are one of the most universally beloved traditional desserts across the Balkan and Turkish culinary traditions, provided here in the ready-made format that makes this labour-intensive festive sweet accessible without home-frying. Frosina is a specialty Macedonian brand producing traditional sweet pastries and confections for the Balkan and diaspora grocery market, and the tulumba represents the brand's commitment to the Ottoman-influenced traditional sweets tradition that is as central to Macedonian, Serbian, Bulgarian, and Bosnian food culture as it is to the Turkish cuisine from which the pastry originally derives. Tulumba is among the most immediately satisfying of the syrup-soaked fried pastries: the specific combination of the crispy, ridged fried exterior and the sugar-syrup-saturated interior creates a textural contrast that has made this pastry one of the most beloved traditional sweets across the entire Ottoman culinary sphere, from Istanbul to Sarajevo, from Sofia to Skopje. Serve on a dessert plate as the Balkan fried pastry at a Macedonian or South Slavic family gathering, arrange on the traditional sweet table alongside hurmašice and baklava, pair with black coffee or Turkish coffee as the sweet-and-bitter pairing of the regional tradition, or serve at a gathering as the ready-made traditional tulumba that Frosina provides without the home-frying effort.