30 Indian Soul Food Desserts No One Makes Anymore (From Bengal)

Nearly every sweet on this list was invented in a kitchen with almost nothing in it — flour, fat, a lump of jaggery — and every single one of them died in the years our kitchens finally had everything. Thirty Indian desserts have quietly vanished from home kitchens, and this video names all thirty, counting down to the one sweet that cannot be written down because the woman who made it never wrote the colour. There is no money in a pan and a spoon and an hour, and there is a great deal of money in a woman who has been told this food is difficult. These traditions were buried not by a corporation but by the disappearance of one thing: the afternoon. Two days of resting, an hour and forty minutes of stirring, twenty-one pleats pinched by hand — every sweet on this list assumed a woman who had an afternoon and spent it on you. This video shows you exactly what each of the thirty sweets is, what the critical technique is that makes or breaks it, and which ones you can make tonight with what your corner store already sells. Thirty years of cooking this food in an American kitchen, and the full countdown starts right now. Tags: #DessertRecipes #TraditionalSweets #RareDesserts #BannedTraditions #HomeCooking #IndianSoulFoodDesserts #BengalDesserts