Traditional Turkish Sweet Bread Discovered in Famine: Pear Bread
Journal: Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi
Year: 2021

Bread, one of the basic nutritional and staple foods for many societies today, is almost as old as the history of humanity. Loaf, yufka-phyllo, bazlama-flatbread and tandır-tandoori varieties of bread are widely made in Turkey. Inherited from our ancestors, yufka is frequently made throughout Turkey. Wild pear, which is also known by names such as “ahlat, gray pear, etc.”, which grows in mountainous regions in Konya, was used in making phyllo bread, especially in times of famine. In this study,