Dhampur Speaks — kitchen

Forgotten foods are fresh on our palates! We humans, are a very unique breed. We take so many things for granted, one being home-cooked food, cooked by our mothers and grandmothers. Having said that, cooking these days is with more and more emphasis on healthy and traditional eating. The forgotten foods are back with a new vibe! No matter who you have become, or what traditions you follow now, sometimes all of us want to go back in time, to those good-old-days and relive some cherished memories again. Realising the importance of some recipes which our grandmothers and mothers cooked,...

  Predominantly, the Indian population is rural, with more than 65% of the population living in the villages. Majority of Indian population suffers either under-nutrition and/ or malnutrition. We are forever looking for ways and means to enhance health of the population. Herein, jaggery, being the wholesome medicinal sugar, comes to the rescue. Jaggery is not only nutritious but also easily available to rural India.   Typically to make jaggery, i.e. gur, the filtered cane juice is pumped into open pans, kept on a triple pan furnace, fired with the bagasse. The juice is clarified with traditional herbal clarificants, thereby...

Your cooking preferences might influence your purchase as brown sugar gives you a much rich texture as compared to white sugar which is plain. So brown i.e. demerara sugar is the definitely better sugar in your kitchen!