RAMADAN IN OTTOMAN EMPIRE

In Ottoman Empire period, people would fast and eat twice a day one iftar (dinner), the other sahur(breakfast); and people wouldn’t eat or drink anything between sahur and iftar

In iftar, people would start eating with several kinds of cheese, olives, jams, pastrami (a kind of bacon), date and Pide (a kind of bread eaten during Ramadan); then they ate soup

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After soup people ate meat, vegetable, fish in more than 40 plates

The most important dessert of Ramadan was Güllac

In sahur, people would eat pilaf, some kinds of pastries and dry fruit compotes not to feel hungryCOMPOTE PİLAF PASTRY

Also, in Ottoman Palace food was given to all poor people who came to eat