Hasıda
Hasıda is one of Çorum’s traditional sweets — a pudding-to-paste sweet made by cooking and thickening starch with water and a sweetener.
What it is
Hasıda is made by cooking and stirring water, starch (or flour), sugar or grape molasses (pekmez) and butter together into a thick paste. It is served warm, and grape molasses, cinnamon or sizzling butter may be drizzled on top. Made with simple ingredients, it is a warming winter sweet.
The Çorum interpretation
Hasıda belongs to the rural and winter kitchen sweets made with few, available ingredients; the version sweetened with grape molasses ties it to the region’s vineyard and molasses culture. The same tradition has plain relatives in Çorum such as karaçuval helva and untuma (the “poor man’s baklava”).
Cultural significance
A modest but rooted home sweet, hasıda holds its place at Çorum tables. It represents the place of winter sweets — made with humble means — in the local kitchen.