[Sca-cooks] Question to the List - Sweet Turkish Crescents

[Susan Laing]

Hi Everyone -

I have a dim memory of eating pastry/sweets called "Spiced Turkish
Crescents" or just "Turkish Crescents"

The topping was dark chocolate; filling was spicy & nutty & base was sweet
short pastry.  Sort of like a chocolate slice, but cut into crescent shapes.

Can anyone help out with a recipe?

Any chance there's something similar to this in period? (I found a recipe
for "Walnut Crescents" with the side note of "Legend has it that bakers
started making pastry in the form of crescents following the Turkish siege
of Vienna in 1683.

Just wondering!

Mari

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