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DATE DESSERT

Ingredients

11/2 or 1 pao dates

A litre of milk

A tin of condensed milk

Six eggs

Sugar

Cream

Lemon

Method – liquidise well. Mix everything together. Bake in the oven for half an hour approximately. When it’s a little soft and brownish, let it stay. Decorate with cream mixed with sugar and lemon.

STEWED LYCHEE

Ingredients

Canned lychee

Sugar

Cream

Method – peel the lychees. Boil in sugar so as to form a syrup. Allow it to cool. Add cream and enjoy.

THE BOHRA SPECIALITY OF

VERMICELLI & MANGO

Ingredients

11/2 litre of milk

Four mangoes

Sugar

Vermicelli – a little less than 3/4 packet crushed with hands

Rose water

Method – make the vermicelli separately. Take the milk after it is chilled. Add in crushed vermicelli and sugar. Cook until the vermicelli appears on the surface. Cut mango strips horizontally and vertically to form cubes then gently scrape the mango pulp so you’ll get the cubes. After the vermicelli cools, add the cubes of mangoes to it and place them in glass dishes to cool. Best eaten after left in refrigerator. You can add a couple of teaspoons of rose water for the aftertaste.

Published in Daily Times, November 30^th 2017.