Zaharni Zavodi Rose Lokum, Bulgarian Turkish Delight 170g (6oz)

Zaharni Zavodi Rose Lokum is a 170g box of Bulgarian-made rose-flavoured Turkish delight — soft, yielding cubes of starch-and-sugar confection infused with rose essence and dusted with powdered sugar, produced by Zaharni Zavodi, the oldest and largest confectionery company in Bulgaria, based in Gorna Oryahovitsa. Zaharni Zavodi — translated as Sugar Works — was established in Bulgaria in 1924 and is the company that produces the lokum, chocolate bars, and confectionery that Bulgarian households have kept as the standard sweet gift for generations; the lokum in particular is the product that represents the Ottoman confectionery heritage absorbed into Bulgarian sweet culture, produced by the State-era factory that kept the tradition alive through the Communist decades and that the diaspora knows as the Bulgarian lokum standard. Rose-flavoured lokum sits at the heart of the Eastern Mediterranean and Balkan confectionery tradition: the floral Turkish delight that evolved from Ottoman kitchens into the standard sweet offered with coffee from Istanbul to Sofia, the confection that carries the rose-cultivation heritage of Bulgaria's Rose Valley in Kazanlak — the source of the attar of roses that flavours both this lokum and the finest rose oil in the world. Serve with strong Turkish coffee or tea as the traditional Eastern European coffee sweet, offer to guests as the hospitality sweet in the Bulgarian tradition, give boxed as an elegant and affordable gift, or eat as the soft floral sweet that captures the rose-scented confectionery heritage of the Balkans.