Cream of Tartar

[sophy]

Need it to make Turkish delight, but none of my local shops seem to have it.

What can I use instead? Or can I leave it out?

Supermarkets do it. Noticed some in Morrisons today!

Hope this will help.

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Ooo, will you let us know how it went? And which recipe you used. I want to make some!

Thanks.

My local supermarkets are out of stock of it. I wonder if lemon juice will do instead?

Don't think vinegar would be much use in Turkish delight!

I would have though that cream of Tartar is quite important. But I don't know what it does.

Don't make the mistake of a playgroup leader who was sent out to get the ingredients for playdough and returned with Tartare Sauce

Is cream of tartar like lemon juice then??

One of them is a white powder?

cream of tartar is a white powder like baking powder and should be with the baking ingredients (although according to this it is used to make baking powder

Cream of tartar (potassium hydrogen tartrate) is not in the least like lemon juice! One of its uses is to prevent the crystallisation of sugar syrup. I would think that this is why it is used in turkish delight.

Thanks all. I ended up borrowing some from a neighbour.

Turkish delight still didn't work properly though and had to be binned.

We have made fudge for the teachers instead!