Icing Sugar, Caster Sugar & Puff Pastry

[bankieken]

Hi.

Heading out to our apartment at the end of March for 2 weeks and wanted to confirm if the following are available in the local shops or supermarkets and what they are called in Turkish.

Icing Sugar
Caster Sugar
Puff Pastry - Frozen or Fresh

Hope someone can help.

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[kevincat99]

yes they are

[Korderekid]

Icing sugar is available. It's called seker pudra and comes in a cardboard box. Caster sugar not available but the local loose sugar is much finer than granulated and works just as well. Sold in plastic bags. If you want it really fine, whizz in blender for a few seconds, for a few more seconds whizzing you will have icing sugar.

Puff pastry not available but you can get frozen sheets of filo pastry which is a reasonable substitute or make your own.

Hope this helps

[kevincat99]

It is puff pastry not filo pastry 

[bankieken]

Different opinions it seems so far!!

Unfortunately making puff pastry from scratch is a little too labour intensive when on holiday, so hopefully its available - if not may have to bring out some frozen supplies.

[turkeyfan]

Hi.

Heading out to our apartment at the end of March for 2 weeks and wanted to confirm if the following are available in the local shops or supermarkets and what they are called in Turkish.

Icing Sugar
Caster Sugar
Puff Pastry - Frozen or Fresh

Hope someone can help.

Well I'm intrigued! What are you planning on baking while on your hols?

[bankieken]

Icing & caster sugar are for meringues. Strawberries will be in season at that time hopefully so should go nicely.

The puff pastry is handy for making pain au chocolat.

[samson]

i have bought puff pastry in yali. its frozen and called mille fullie ot something like that. have bought it loads of times . it comes as square sheets approx 5 inches square with waxed paper between each piece of pastry.

[Korderekid]

Stand corrected on the pastry. Didn't know it was puff pastry, always thought it was filo so didn't buy it.

There are various brands and it is called Milfoy. The cheapest is in Bim.

You can buy meringues here but they are quite small so would not work for pavlova or similar but are great crushed into vanilla ice cream with  fresh strawberries.

[bankieken]

Thanks for all the helpful responses.

Looks as if the mini pavlovas with ice cream and strawberries are sorted with pain au chocolat as an alternative.