This macun is the taste of  spices. It has got 41 kinds of spices : anise, black cumin,c ardamon... It smells very nice. And it’s taste is very good. It may make at different types.e.g. with kinds of chocolate,with peanut,with crispy rice… The orginal is like honey but it’s consistency is more dense then honey’s. And it is more sticky than honey.
HISTORY OF MASİR MACUN:
        Ayse Hafsa Sultan, who was the wife of Yavuz Sultan Selim, and the mother of Suleyman The Magnificent became very ill after the dead of her husband. Anybody couldn’t cure her. Suleyman The Magnificent consulted the head of theological school , Merkez Efendi. He could make medicines with spices and herbs. He mixed  41 different types of spices. Hafsa Sultan ate it and she heald and she wanted to share this macun to public from Yavuz Sultan Selim mosque. Public like this delicious macun they  came every march 21th in front of the mosque. So  Manisa Mesir Festivals started.

THE BENEFITS OF MASİR MACUN:
       It is cough –relieving, appetizer. And it is very good for stomachache ,tootache, asthma…
                                                    

          By Müberra Uysal