HAPPY DIWALI ------- ENJOY DIWALI WITH SWEETS

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‘Not all sweets’,  I replied when I was asked whether I like sweets and chose to give further explanation. 

 



Rasgulla, gulab jamun, chum chum, champa kali and most other Bengali sweets have a deep swim in the sugar pond and return without wiping for us to cut and taste any part of its  body and feel delicious. That is because the milk when not in liquid mode has the multi structural ability to partner with sugar in different shapes and sizes and transform to different colors also  to assume new names and add pleasure to taste buds. 



Such pleasure is obviously not felt in many others, also called sweets.

Padusha for one for me is still attempting to taste sweet without much success. The particles of Rava ladu after having a tie up with sugar are united by heavy dose of ghee and needs garnishing with cashew nut and raisin to attract and present itself also as a sweet. Other ladus with base of dal,ground and united with sugar face same fate. Mysore pak no doubt is sweet when it behaves, but quite often it allows the ghee to misbehave and, in the process, the haughty ghee often bulldoze sugar and dominates the taste and also operate in our stomach as a late reaction. Appam being too close to the ghee and not that friendly with sugar is a typical also ran in the race of sweets.

 

Sone papdi either in 'cut grass' form or in solidarity with others in its clan have a nice roll over sugar juice and is solid both in shape and taste. Sone halwa though rough like a cut limestone pours sugary juice as one bites the hardened surface. Thus, it is full sugar tasting sweets that I like more than halfhearted sweets.

 

Jelebi I had with puri as morning breakfast when I was in Bihar. Though tasty it was not fulfilling, and I learnt the way of eating jelebi while in Gujarat. It must be hot and just out of the oven. The jelebi unlike the Bengali sweets just floats in the sugar pond and grasps the entire sweet content like a bright student and being just out of the hot pot teams with colleagues normally in a group of five. Just separate it and thrust in the mouth and you will realize what is meant by sweet. It teams up with another Gujarati delicacy of hot ‘fafda’ for an evening snack with hot tea is another chapter worth writing. 

Thus, Diwali is the time I do eat sweets, but also remember sweets that are not visible in my palate.

 

ENJOYING SWEETS OF YOUR CHOICE AND ENJOY DIWALI IN STYLE. WISH YOU ALL A VERY HAPPY DIWALI

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Comments

Unknown said…
Analysed all sweets.
Everything is special in its own way.
Nowadays people are afraid to consume sweets. In a way sweets are like sweet hearts!!
November 14, 2020 at 7:41 PM
Unknown said…
Analysed all sweets.
Everything is special in its own way.
Nowadays people are afraid to consume sweets. In a way sweets are like sweet hearts!!
November 14, 2020 at 7:42 PM
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