Jalebi (Sweet Macaroni)

Ingredients

• One pound rawa
• two ounces ghee
• one and three-quarter ounces of rice powder
• one and a quarter ounce of lentil powder
• the juice of one or two lemons

Method

1. 1

   Prepare rawa by washing wheat, drying, and grinding.

2. 2

   Mix rawa, ghee, rice powder, lentil powder with water and milk to form a thin liquid, adding lemon juice.

3. 3

   Let stand overnight.

4. 4

   In the morning, boil sugar with water to form a sticky liquid (pak).

5. 5

   Rub the mixture until it forms a paste, add milk and whip.

6. 6

   Pour into boiling ghee to form circular shapes, then place in hot pak.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Banquets of the nations (1911) by Robert H. Christie, page 105. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Jalebi. (Sweet Macaroni.) First of all prepare rawa as follows : — Wheat is washed and laid on a cloth for four or five hours to dry. Then it is ground. Then the coarse flour produced is rubbed over a cloth, through which the finer material passes. The residue is shaken on a basket. The husks and colouring matter separate, and the granules which remain are known as rawa. One pound rawa, two ounces ghee, one and three- quarter ounces of rice powder, and one and a quarter ounce of lentil powder, are mixed with water and milk so as to form a thin liquid, and the juice of one or two lemons

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