Helvahane Cuisine serves under the kitchen supervisor and the head of the cellar. Ottoman sherbets, halvah, syrups, and strength pastes to be made in the Ottoman palace kitchen were made in the Helvahane Hearth. If we talk about the size of the Helvahane Kitchen...
Helvahane Cuisine
Has Chef Ahmet Ozdemir
Helvahane Kitchen (1520-1566) , built during the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, consists of four domes and two sections. The name of the employees of the Helvahane Kitchen, which is under the control of Helvacıbaşı, is Helvaciyân-ı Hassa. As in all parts of the Ottoman palace cuisine , there is a "leak system". The successful ones could have been the chief cook and the chief helva maker.
Helvahane Cuisine serves under the kitchen supervisor and the head of the cellar. Ottoman sherbets, halvah, syrups, and strength pastes to be made in the Ottoman palace kitchen were made in the Helvahane Hearth. If we talk about the size of the Helvahane Kitchen; Between 1830 and 1860, he had a staff of more than 100 shagirt and 6 masters.
Dumplings, halva varieties, sherbet varieties, mesir paste and confectionery were made primarily for the needs of the sultan. The "chief physician" had the authority to supervise the Helvahane Kitchen, where the smartest employees were preferred in the Ottoman palace kitchen.
The reason for the high number of assistant apprentices and journeymen in the Halvahane Kitchen, where products that require attention, is the production of soaps with chemical compounds that the people of the palace need, medicines and pastes from medicinal plants (rose and poppy) in the palace garden, types of essences and candles used in palace lighting are produced in this kitchen.
We can show the sultan's Halva-yı Hakanî, Me'muniye halva, Halva-i Halkaçini, Scoop Halva as an example in the halva tradition, among the most made and admired in the Halvahane Cuisine. In addition, one of the features of the Halvahane Cuisine is that it makes a special kind of halva, which has not been made before, for each new sultan who comes to the throne.
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I would like to state that I registered the same definition as "Helvahane Cuisine" in the Ottoman Palace Organization on the " wikipedia "website six days ago , on July 23, 2021.
Ahmet Ozdemir
Coord. Executive Chef
International Restaurant and Cuisine Consultant
Ottoman and Turkish Cuisine World Volunteer Ambassador
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The original text, which is accepted as a source, is as follows. Google translation was used for the necessary language change.