Syrian Raha sweet enter guinness world records

The Syrian southern city of Dera'a entered Guinness World Records in the field of making oriental sweets by baking the biggest piece of local sweets called Raha. The gigantic sugary semi-chewing gum went on display as part of a recent tourists and heritage festival in the area of Houran.

The 'cube' of Raha weighed 400 kilograms and measured 100 by 60 centimeters and 60 centimeters height, Maher Abu Zreik, owner of local sweets factory in Dera'a, was quoted as saying by al-Thawra newspaper on Wednesday.

The sweet-maker added that the 'cube' won satisfaction and acceptance of the people in charge of Guinness World of Records and registered it in the Book as the biggest cube of sweets in the world.

Abu Zreik added that cooking the cubic-form material went into several stages because of the viscosity of the raw materials used and their large quantities: 275 KG of sugar, 75 KG of starch, 50 Liters of water. It is 1000 times the size of ordinary 'cubes', and took 12 days to bake it.

This local sweet, made from a yeast of flour, sugar, some pleasant flavors, sugar powder on the surface, and stuffed with nuts, is well-known across Syria. It carries the 'Made in Dera'a' since 1940's.