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Ayva tatlısı is a dessert from Turkish cuisine that is made with quince. The quince is cooked by boiling in water or in the oven with cloves, sweet syrup and filled with apple or quince meal, raisins and topped with kaymak, or ice cream.

Ayva tatlısı (quince dessert) from the Turkish cuisine. Notice that the fruit's half has been carved and filled with its own meal. (Can also be filled with apple meal.) The black thingy at the rear is a clove for odour
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Ayva tatlısı is a dessert from Turkish cuisine that is made with quince. The quince is cooked by boiling in water or in the oven with cloves, sweet syrup and filled with apple or quince meal, raisins and topped with kaymak, or ice cream. It is often served as halves, with the inside slightly carved out. The dish is eaten warm and cold throughout Turkey, particularly during wintertime. 1

The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Ayva tatlısı”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. 1

quince dessert is Turkish dessert made with quince fruits, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 2

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