[Sca-cooks] weird Indian Hindustani stuff

[A F Murphy]

Well, Rose Brand is the name of a place that sells all kinds of supplies
for theatre techs... muslin, scrim, paint, light stuff... Sorry,
couldn't help it, that's all I could think of when I saw that!

OK, not helpful... not related...

Anne


Devra at aol.com wrote:

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