Pine-apple Sweets (Gulab Janim)

Ingredients

• One pound of flour
• one pound and a half of sugar
• five or six drops of kewra or essence of pine-apple
• a quarter pound of ghee

Method

1. 1

   Mix flour with ghee, then add sufficient water to make a good dough.

2. 2

   Make small balls the size of a walnut, flatten them, and fry in ghee.

3. 3

   Boil sugar until near crackling, remove from fire, add flattened balls, let remain for half an hour, and put on oiled paper to dry.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Banquets of the nations (1911) by Robert H. Christie, page 143. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

One pound of flour, one pound and a half of sugar and five or six drops of kewra or essence of pine-apple. Mix the flower well with a quarter pound of ghee

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.