There is nothing nicer than a handmade gift, especially if it is also sweets. I propose to cook Turkish Delight, beloved by many, known to us as Turkish Delight. With lemon and ginger.
We prepare sugar syrup: pour 150 ml into a saucepan with a thick bottom. water, add sugar and citric acid. Mix thoroughly and cook the syrup to a temperature of 130 degrees. Determining the temperature is very simple: drop a little syrup into a glass of cold water, if you can form a solid ball, the syrup is ready.
Mix starch with cold water (400 ml.). Remove the zest from the lemons, squeeze the juice, strain the juice. Ginger is cleaned and rubbed on a fine grater. Add the zest, juice and ginger to the starch with water. We mix.
Pour the starch mixture into the hot sugar syrup, mix thoroughly. Cook over low heat until thickened. Constantly stir the mass. The mass should be very thick.
Sprinkle the form generously with a mixture of powdered sugar and corn starch (1: 1). We spread the brewed mass. We level the surface (a spoon can be moistened in cold water). Leave the lokum to stand at room temperature for a day.
Cut the lokum into cubes. Roll in a mixture of powder and starch.