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Show TURKISH DAY OF REJOICING. Hospitable Welcomo Accorded to All During the Month of Ramazaru Every year In Turkey, In the month of Ramazan, as they term it which it the month when the Koran was re vealed, in 26 parts, to Mohammed it was for years a general custom In Turkey for the Turks to open their houses at 12 o'clock, the Turkish sunset sun-set time, to strangers and anyone was permitted to enter and take supper, a meal the Turks call oviftar, during Ramazan. No matter how poor or how rich the persons, and whether a complete stranger or near friend, they come just before the sunset hour, and all are seated at the truly hospitable table before 12 o'clock. Immediately after the roar of the cannons announces sunset the Turks eat either an olive or a date, it being the legend that the holy prophet did this, and those who smoke may begin as soon as the date or olive, supposed to be the fruits of paradise, disappears. Then come jellies, jel-lies, as it is a belief in Turkey that sweets "collect the senses," whatever that may mean. Oddly enough, soups follow the sweets, and then after that eggs cooked in butter are served, followed fol-lowed in turn by mutton chops or roasted meat; these are succeeded by vegetables, and the vegetables by a sort of sugarless pudding, called beurek, and after this the famous baclava or kadaif. After all this more meat courses, fish, and vegetables are served, and such sweets as rice milk (gullaj sud-laj), sud-laj), native blanc mange (mahallebi), pilaf with hishad or junket (yaourt) and coffee. |
