Tirit, also known as trit, is a cheap, wholesome and filling Turkish dish prepared to avoid wasting dry bread and inexpensive animal parts produced in the course of butchery. It is prepared by soaking broken-up stale bread in a broth prepared from offal, the resulting mixture then being seasoned with ground pepper and onion. Further refinements include the addition of various types of cheese and yogurt - as recorded in certain Hatay cookery books. Tirit sometimes features also in the cuisine of Mecca, where the story is told that the morale of a community hungry from famine brought about by a drought was boosted by being sustained by this dish until the return of times of greater plenty.