[Sca-cooks] weird Indian Hindustani stuff

[Devra at aol.com]

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I went into the local Indian convenience store --next to the 'mailbox'-- to
pick up some sugared fennel seeds for the potluck, and noticed some very
strange lumpy things (looking sorta like the animated models of a molecule,
or maybe a bucky-ball).  Smaller ones were pinky-white; larger ones were
bluey-white.  The manager said they were sugar, and he'd seen them make them
in large pans when he was a kid, but that was all he knew.  Thought there
might be some special flavor to them, but not whether there was anything but
sugar in them.  Next-door guy who runs the mailbox said that you used them on
altars and for festive occassions, but they were really just sugar...

The package says 'Sweet makhana' and the larger ones are Jaipur brand, while
the smaller ones as "Rose brand".  The label also says 'processed sugar'.

So anyone know what they are?
Devra (who is easily distracted)



Devra Langsam
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