Pişmaniye
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Pişmaniye or Pishmaniye is a Turkish dessert that is a kind of candy floss made up of thousands of strands of flour and sugar and garnished with pistachio. Pishmaniye occupies an important place in the Turkish cuisine. It is relished best with unsweetened mint tea.
The Persian equivalent is Pashmak.
It has been invented by Agop Efendi (of Armenian descent) in the mid 19th century.
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