Pişmaniye (Bosnian: Ćetenija) is a Turkish and Bosnian sweet in fine strands made by blending flour roasted in butter into pulled sugar. It is sometimes garnished with ground pistachio nuts. Although it is sometimes compared to cotton candy, both the ingredients and method of preparation are significantly different.

Pişmaniye

Alternative names	Tel helva, çekme helva, tel tel, tepme helva, keten helva, Ćetenija
Type	Dessert
Place of origin	Turkey
Region or state	Kocaeli, Turkey
Main ingredients	Flour, butter, pulled sugar
Media: Pişmaniye

Until recently pişmaniye used to be made at home in most regions of Turkey, but this tradition is now rapidly disappearing.[1] Today the manufacturing process is partially mechanised.[2]

Alternative names

There are many different Turkish names, used in different provinces, the most common being tel helva, çekme helva, tel tel, tepme helva and keten helva.

Origin and etymology

The earliest Turkish reference to pişmaniye is a recipe by Şirvani,[3] a physician writing during the 1430s. The Persian form pashmak, related to paşmīna and paşm, the origin of the Turkish name pişmaniye,[4] occurs in the poetry of the Iranian poet Ebu Ishak, also known as Bushak (d. 1423 or 1427).[5] "Pashm" in Persian means wool, and "Pashmak" means wool-like.

Another theory is that it may be of a Coptic origin from :'ⲡⲏⲥ: pis":[6] which means :" to mix flour with fat" , and "ⲛⲏⲓⲛⲓ: nani or mani ":[7] which means : "honey" , this candy found in Egypt, known as "halawat sha'ar حلاوة شعر" which means : "hair candy".

See also

• Sutarfeni
• Soan papdi, a similar Indian sweet
• Pashmak
• Dragon's beard candy

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pişmaniye.

• Video of traditional hand-made technique filmed in a bazaar
• Demonstration of modern mechanized equipment in the making of pişmaniye

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[ru] Пишмание