The loss of curd is perhaps the worst nemesis for most vegans in India.
Curd in the West, usually means coagulated dairy milk, made by addition of rennet, vinegar or lemon (an acidic medium) to dairy milk causing it to separate. The coagulated milk is then hung to separate the curd from the whey.
Yogurt as known in the West is closer to curd we use in India. But we neither flavour nor sweeten it. We set ...
Soon after the post was published I received a lot of feedback. S, a friend, corrected me as bael is not the same as kavath in Marathi. She said the two were different fruits. Another friend in one of my fb groups suggested checking the names used. So I checked. And this is what I gathered (mostly from wiki). The English names are confusing as both varieties are known as wood apple as well.
The fruit I used (Bael) is described below, and is known in various languages thus:
Bengal quince, stone apple or wood apple, bilva or bilvapatre in Kannada, bael or sirphal in Hindi, beel in Punjabi, bael or kaveeth in Marathi, maredu in Telugu, vilvam in Tamil (while the plant is called koovilam)
"Bael [Aegle marmelos] is the only member of the monotypic genus Aegle.
It is a mid-sized, slender, aromatic, armed, gum-bearing tree. It has a leaf with three leaflets (trifoliate). This is why I am sure I used bael.
The bael fruit has a smooth, woody shell with a green, gray, or yellow peel. It can reach the size of a large grapefruit or pomelo, and some are even larger. The shell is so hard it must be cracked with a hammer or machete. The fibrous yellow pulp is very aromatic. It has been ...
The loss of curd is perhaps the worst nemesis for most vegans in India.
Curd in the West, usually means coagulated dairy milk, made by addition of rennet, vinegar or lemon (an acidic medium) to dairy milk causing it to separate. The coagulated milk is then hung to separate the curd from the whey.
Yogurt as known in the West is closer to curd we use in India. But we neither flavour nor sweeten it. We set ...
When I was in school, lunch break, library and P.E were my favourite times - exactly in that order! To me, study hours were the damages one had to put up with in order to enjoy these breaks. Sadly library and P.E were not considered as important as lunch and were restricted to once or twice a week. Lunch break was also a time to explore cuisines and share food. In the eighth grade, my ...
