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- From: vyju@kind.ecn.purdue.edu (Vyjayanthi Manian)
- Subject: Re: REQUEST: Puffing Rice
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.151631.12288@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- References: <184335@pyramid.pyramid.com> <1992Nov18.224130.26167@vela.acs.oakland.edu> <fred-mckenzie-191192125525@k4dii.ksc.nasa.gov>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 15:16:31 GMT
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- In article <fred-mckenzie-191192125525@k4dii.ksc.nasa.gov> fred-mckenzie@ksc.nasa.gov (Fred McKenzie) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov18.224130.26167@vela.acs.oakland.edu>,
- >drmellen@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Dewayne Mellen) wrote:
- >> If any one knowes how to puff rice like in ceral could you please
- >> email me the instructions or post them.
- >
- >Dewayne-
- >
-
- You certainly have to use rice that has not been hulled.
- I have looked for it around here, but no success. The local
- health food store does not carry it.
-
- I have vivid memories of my grandmother puffing rice for the
- "karthigai" festival in Southern India (around Oct/Nov). She would take
- a HUGE wok, set it on a coal burning stove and put some fine sand
- in it (yes!). When the sand got hot, she would add the unhulled rice
- and start stirring it. Obviously, you cannot use a metallic spoon - the
- noise of the sand against the metal could just drive you nuts! She would
- use a bunch of stiff fibres (from the coconut palm tree) tied togther - like a
- tiny broom. The rice would just puff away. The hull gets loosened and
- then it is sifted.
-
- She would then proceed to make a syrup of jaggery (unrefined sugar) and
- add the puffed rice and bits of slivered coconut, and then shape into
- balls. We would just chew on it and it was delicious.
-
- Karthigai came and went this Nov 10 - but no puffed rice. Sigh.
-
- vyju manian
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