Usha Di, My mom says she and her friends used those entire leaves as dummy LUCHI for their dolls. My wife says she used to cut the leaves round with the help of a can-lid, you know small cans made from aluminium were used as packaging for 'zafrani zarda' or 'snuff' or even tooth-powder. Parthenium flowers or some others were cauliflower in their dream kitchen! Brick dust was chili-powder to them!
Regards, surajit On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 9:01 PM, ushadi Micromini <[email protected] > wrote: > Surajit > nice > how did they ever make luchi from these pata? please have your mom or > wife tell me. > > Luchi is known to the western world as PURI .. > people who go to indian restaurants either are served real puris (is 3-4 > inch in diameter) puris > or you must have seen those gimmicky 12 inch puffed puris.... nowadays > malls in India are also serving them... last year I saw these being served > in the food court in a couple of malls in Kolkata > > Usha di > > On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 8:33 PM, surajit koley < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Sir, >> >> My mother played with this herb, my wife too, but my daughter didn't, for >> now-a-days they have barbie-sindy-leo-funskool.... god knows how many! This >> is a common herb which is often used in junior schools to demonstrate >> absorption & transportation of water in plants. >> >> Species : *Peperomia >> pellucida<http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?400106> >> * (L.) Kunth >> Bengali name : LUCHI-PATA >> Habit & Habitat : common herb, prostrate-erect >> Date : 19/8/12, 12.01 P.M. >> Place : Hooghly >> site visited : >> >> 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peperomia_pellucida >> 2. http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Shiny%20Bush.html >> 3. >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/indiantreepix/VDWIS2M4Wt8/discussion >> 4. >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/indiantreepix/o5p8goX6ngY/discussion >> 5. http://www.tropicos.org/Name/25001099?projectid=9 >> >> In those older days, using its shiny leaves, girls cooked / prepared >> LUCHI <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luchi> (now, what is the English of >> LUCHI?) for their wooden dolls! >> >> Thank you & Regards, >> >> surajit >> >> -- >> >> >> >> > > > > -- > Usha di > =========== > > --
