wonderful to document these, thanks Surajit ps collect such stories while you can.... treasure of a life time
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 9:19 PM, surajit koley < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> =========== >> >> > -- Usha di =========== --
