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Turrón (Spanish:), torró (Catalan: / Valencian:) or torrone (Italian: [torˈroːne]) is a Mediterranean nougat confection, typically made of honey, sugar, and egg white, with toasted almonds or other nuts, and usually shaped either into a rectangular tablet or a round cake.
Turon (Tagalog pronunciation:; also known as lumpiang saging (Filipino for "banana lumpia") or sagimis in dialectal Tagalog, is a Philippine snack made of thinly sliced bananas (preferably saba or Cardaba bananas), rolled in a spring roll wrapper, fried till the wrapper is crisp and coated with caramelized brown sugar. [1]
In Britain, nougat is traditionally made in the style of the southern European varieties, and is commonly found at fairgrounds and seaside resorts. The most common industrially produced type [14] is coloured pink and white, the pink often fruit flavoured, and sometimes wrapped in edible rice paper with almonds and cherries.
Confectionery can be mass-produced in a factory. The oldest recorded use of the word confectionery discovered so far by the Oxford English Dictionary is by Richard Jonas in 1540, who spelled or misspelled it as "confection nere" in a passage "Ambre, muske, frankencense, gallia muscata and confection nere", thus in the sense of "things made or sold by a confectioner".
Example flavors include strawberry, chocolate, banana, and grape. Dalgona or ppopgi: A Korean sweet candy made from melted sugar and baking soda. Okchun-dang: A Korean traditional sweet made of rice flour. Yeot: A Korean traditional confectionery. It can be made in either liquid or solid form, as a syrup, taffy, or candy.
American pralines cooling on a marble slab. Unlike European pralines, American pralines are made with cream. Pralines (US: / ˈ p r eɪ l iː n /; New Orleans, Cajun, and UK: / ˈ p r ɑː l iː n /) are confections containing nuts – usually almonds, pecans and hazelnuts – and sugar. Cream is a common third ingredient. There are two main types:
Turon (food), a Filipino dessert made of banana and jackfruit, wrapped in an eggroll wrapper, and then fried; The Turon River in Australia; Turon National Park in Australia; Turoń, a festive monstrosity from Polish folklore; FC Turon, an association football club based in Yaypan, Uzbekistan; Former European name of Da Nang, a port city in Vietnam
Mantecado is a name for a variety of Spanish shortbreads that includes the polvorón.The names are often synonymous, but not all mantecados are polvorones.The name mantecado comes from manteca (), usually the fat of Iberian pig (cerdo ibérico), with which they are made, while the name polvorón is based on the fact that these cakes crumble easily into a kind of dust in the hand or the mouth.