Pişmaniye: the floss
Pişmaniye is a floss confection: sugar pulled with flour and butter into thousands of fine threads that dissolve on the tongue. US searches call it Turkish cotton candy or angel hair, and the chocolate bars that wrap the floss in milk chocolate are searched as turkish chocolate with cotton candy inside. On the chocolate page the pişmaniye bars are in the filled-bar group.
Pestil: fruit leather
Pestil is fruit leather made from grape molasses, sometimes with mulberry or apricot, dried in sheets and cut into rolls. It is naturally sweet, shelf-stable and travels dry. The muska triangle folds the same leather around pistachio or hazelnut. Both are on the pistachio and regional page.
Churchkhela: walnut rolls
Walnut halves threaded on a string and dipped repeatedly in thickened grape molasses until a chewy coat forms. The Gaziantep version is called cevizli sucuk; the name churchkhela is used across the Caucasus. It contains no meat, which is worth stating on a label because the Turkish word sucuk also means sausage. Sold in bulk and in retail packs.
Cezerye and the coated nuts
Cezerye is a carrot-paste confection with nuts, rolled in coconut; it sits with the special lokum on the counter. Coated nuts, from sugar-panned almonds to chocolate-covered pistachios, are the dragée family and have their own page. The popping candy, jellies and mini biscuits of the children’s shelf are on the confectionery page.
Who buys them in the United States
Turkish and Middle Eastern grocers already carry pestil and churchkhela and know the names. Mainstream distributors meet them through the pistachio door: a buyer who takes pistachio chocolate and Turkish delight adds fruit leather and walnut rolls as the natural next lines, because they come from the same city and the same container. Gift assortments are the other route; a box that mixes lokum, pişmaniye bars and coated nuts sells the tradition as a set.
How the range ships together
All of these are made in Gaziantep and around it, which is why they can travel in one container with chocolate and Turkish delight. Each line takes its own pallet; dry lines travel dry, chocolate lines at a controlled temperature. Outside the core range we source on request: halva, instant coffee, powdered drinks, spices, fruit juice, bulk pistachio nuts, nuts and dried fruit, freeze-dried fruit. The products page lists the core range; the offer lists what your container will carry.
What to send
Send the references from the pistachio & regional page and the confectionery page, the quantity per line and the destination port. The written offer follows within two working days, the case weight and the minimum stated for each.
Samples come free from our running production; the courier is on your account and paid before dispatch. The united states: what stays the same on every offer page lists what stays the same on every offer, and the private label page covers putting your own name on the pack.
Is pişmaniye the same as halva?
It is often called floss halva in English, but it is a pulled-sugar floss, not the sesame halva sold in blocks. Sesame halva is sourced on request.
Does churchkhela contain meat?
No. The Turkish name cevizli sucuk uses the word for sausage because of the shape; it is walnuts and grape molasses.
Which of these can carry a private label?
Retail formats as one of our core services; bulk lines carry our standard label.
